Stelis superbiensLindl.

WFO wfo-0000315903 Accepted WFO 2026-06 7 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–g · 3 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 3 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 superbiens, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. a Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-06-04 / obs. 133942072
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. b Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184976259
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Kai Squires
fig. c Kai Squires, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 133942317
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. d Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184976277
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. e Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179892278
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Nolan Exe
fig. f Nolan Exe, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 184976215
Stelis superbiens, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. g Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 179891637

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Native range 10 botanical countries

Regions where Stelis superbiens is native: Mexico Southeast, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Panamá, Peru, Venezuela Mexico SoutheastBoliviaColombiaCosta RicaEcuadorGuatemalaNicaraguaPanamáPeruVenezuela
Native distribution of Stelis superbiens, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Bolivia BOL SOUTHERN AMERICA
Colombia CLM
Costa Rica COS
Ecuador ECU
Guatemala GUA
Nicaragua NIC
Panamá PAN
Peru PER
Venezuela VEN
Mexico Southeast MXT NORTHERN AMERICA

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 9 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.

  • Stelis cascajalensis Ames
  • Stelis convallarioides Garay
  • Stelis eximia Ames
  • Stelis koehleri Schltr.
  • Stelis leucopogon Rchb.f.
  • Stelis nanegalensis Lindl.
  • Stelis pichinchae Dodson & Garay
  • Stelis propinqua Ames
  • Stelis vulcanica Schltr.

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.