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Mistletoe orchid

Stelis sp

Description:

epiphytic, tiny flowers, not sure of the species

Habitat:

cloudforest, 3300m

Notes:

One of the few species of Stelis orchid I spotted in Volcan Purace National Park. Stelis is the greek word for mistletoe and I choose that as the common name.

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7 Comments

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thanks again Daniel. Looks like it won't go past the genus with ID but I'm okay with that.

Daniel-CR
Daniel-CR 11 years ago

Wonderful Stelis !!! . At this moment, it is not possible to correctly determine 90% of the entire genus because of lack of information, bad published names, bad diagnosis, etc, etc.

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thank you Maria.

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

lovely

Dan Doucette
Dan Doucette 11 years ago

Thank you Yuko and Leuba, you are so right!

Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago

very pretty ! These cloud forests must hold so much magic !!

YukoChartraw
YukoChartraw 11 years ago

So precious!

Dan Doucette
Spotted by
Dan Doucette

Huila, Colombia

Spotted on Jan 14, 2013
Submitted on Mar 31, 2013

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