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(Last Modified On 11/11/2012)
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(Last Modified On 11/11/2012)
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Species
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STELIS AEMULA Schltr.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36, Abt. 2:385. 1918.
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Reference
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Stelis sarcodantha Schltr. loc. cit. 392.
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Description
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Small, caespitose, epiphytic herbs up to about 2.5 cm. tall. Secondary stems 1.5-7.5 cm. long, slender, shorter than the leaves. Leaves 4-11.5 cm. long and 0.5-1.3 cm. broad, ligulate to oblanceolate, obtuse or acute, coriaceous, attenuate at the base into a petiole. Inflorescence up to 20 cm. long (in Panama mostly 12 cm. or less), much exceeding the leaves; bracts 1-2 mm. long, infundibuliform. Sepals 1.5-2.2 mm. long and 1.75-2.5 mm. broad, broadly ovate-orbicular or suborbicular, obtuse or acutish, marginate or the margins obscurely involute, puberulent or glabrous within. Petals 0.5-0.6 mm. long and 0.6-1 mm. broad, oblong to flabellate, the apex thickened. Lip 0.5-0,.75 mm. long and 0.6-1 mm. broad, suborbicular, obtuse, with a transverse callus in the middle, margins not thickened.
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Distribution
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(Guatemala, Honduras -S. perplexa Ames)?, Costa Rica, and Panama.
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Specimen
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CHIRIQUI: Palo Alto, alt. 4500-5000 feet, Powell 290, 291, 293, 294. COCLE: hills north of El Valle de Anton, alt. 1000 m., Allen 2154, 2157.
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