Flor de llanten (Stelis gelida)
Description
Found from Florida, Chiapas state of Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, the Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil on steep slopes in wet montane forests at elevations of 200 to 2300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped partially below by 2, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, nerved, abruptly contracted below into the sulcate, petiolate base leaf that blooms on several, fasiculate, 6" [15 cm] long, many [30 to 35], successively flowered inflorescence arising through an annulus and carrying delicately fragrant flowers occuring in the spring and summer.
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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