Guadeloupe Bonnet Orchid (Stelis antillensis)
Description
Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Leewards and Jamaica in wet montane and cloud forests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 scarious, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly oblong-elliptic to elliptic-oblanceolate, rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on 1 to 3, terminal, erect, slender, 2.2 to 3.4" [5.5 to 8.5 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence arising through a scarious, conduplicate spathe
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Liliopsida
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Order: Asparagales
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Family: Orchidaceae
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Genus: Stelis
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