Stelis sclerophylla(Lindl.) Karremans

WFO wfo-0001340466 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 4 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 4 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Jairo Pinto
fig. a Jairo Pinto, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-02-21 / obs. 118525728
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. b GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54309554
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Jairo Pinto
fig. c Jairo Pinto, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118525572
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ
fig. d GERMAN LEONEL SARMIENTO CRUZ, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54309650
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. e Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118454793
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. f Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101287212
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. g Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 118454772
Stelis sclerophylla, photographed by Nicolás Baresch Uribe
fig. h Nicolás Baresch Uribe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 101287466

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Native range 12 botanical countries

Regions where Stelis sclerophylla is native: Bolivia, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles BoliviaBrazil NortheastBrazil SouthBrazil SoutheastColombiaEcuadorFrench GuianaGuyanaPeruSurinameVenezuela Venezuelan Antilles
Native distribution of Stelis sclerophylla, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Brazil Northeast BZE
Brazil South BZS
Brazil Southeast BZL
Colombia CLM
Ecuador ECU
French Guiana FRG
Guyana GUY
Peru PER
Suriname SUR
Venezuela VEN
Venezuelan Antilles VNA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 13 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Anathallis sclerophylla (Lindl.) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase
  • Anathallis secunda Barb.Rodr.
  • Humboltia sclerophylla (Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Humboltia stenopetala (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze
  • Pleurothallis listrostachys Rchb.f.
  • Pleurothallis ottonis Schltr.
  • Pleurothallis sclerophylla Lindl.
  • Pleurothallis stenopetala Lodd. ex Lindl.
  • Pleurothallis tricora Schltr.
  • Pleurothallis triura Schltr.
  • Pleurothallis urosepala F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.
  • Specklinia sclerophylla (Lindl.) Luer
  • Zosterophyllanthos stenopetalus (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Szlach. & Marg.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.