Stelis bidentata

Stelis bidentata

Stelis bidentata                                                                                                                                                                photo C. Solimbergo
   
taxonomy described by Schlechter, Friedrich Richard Rudolf
  published in     Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis  10 ( 254 - 256 ) : 358    1912
     
  family Orchidaceae
  subfamily Epidendroideae
  tribe Epidendreae
  subtribe Pleurothallidinae
  genus Stelis  Swartz 1800
     
  metabolism

C3 pathway, stomata of the leaves are open during the day.

    (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013)
    it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots.
     
native of origins humid forests in Mexico (Chiapas), Belize (Toledo), Guatemala (Cobàn), El Salvador, Nicaragua (Jinotega),
    Costa Rica, Panama (Chiriquì)
  altitude 1100 - 1500 m (3630 - 4950 ft)
  habitat climate informations from Cobàn (Alta Verapaz, Guatemala)
    Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers
    the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1300 m / 4300 ft) :
    Stelis bidentata b gr uk
  photoperiod   in Cobàn this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 13 h 01 m' to 10 h 59 m'
  life form epiphyte
  brightness    low
     
inflorescence     length 8 - 10 cm  (3.6" - 4"), from the base of the leaf
  nr flowers 50 - 66, 1 - 3 inflorescences for pseudobulb
  size single flower  0.1 L 0.1 cm  (0.04" L 0.04") - inflorescence  L  cm
  duration inflorescencedays
  time to bloom from birth, ≈ days 
     
CITES appendix II

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