Finding
SITF has agreed this plant is Stelis pompalis, not Stelis segoviensis (Feb 2026). It was identified with the aid of Franco Pupulin who said, "The relatively short, elliptic petals and the thickened median calli of the lip that almost touch each other at the apex, better corresponds to Stelis pompalis. In Stelis segoviensis, the petals are linear-oblong, and the calli of the lip are barely raised above the surface, as low keels." It also matches the photo of S. pompalis found in the POWO.
Overall Length Of Growth Cane: up to 20cm
Number Of Leaves Per Growth Or Cane: 1cm
Leaf Length: 15cm
Leaf Width: 2.1cm
Leaf Margin: entire
Leaf Shape: oblanceolate
Leaf Petiole Length: N.A.
Pseudobulb Length: 4cm
Pseudobulb Width: 0.3cm
Pseudobulb Margin: N.A.
Pseudobulb Distance: clustered
Pseudobulb Root Tip: green
Inflorescence Overall Length: up to 45cm
Inflorescence Arrangement: upward arching
Inflorescence Dist Base To Bud: approx. 11cm
Inflorescence Dist Bet Flowers: 1.4cm
Inflorescence Dist To Sepal: 0.5cm pedicel
Floral Bracts Length: 0.7cm
Floral Bracts Width: 0.1cm
Ovary Length: 0.2cm
Ovary Width: 0.1cm
Ovary Shape: round
Ovary Color: bright green
Ovary Texture: matte
Flower Natural Spread Length: 2.4cm
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.4cm
Dorsal Sepal Length: 1.6cm
Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.4cm
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Length: N.A
Dorsal Sepal Cauda Width: N.A.
Lateral Sepals Length: 1.3cm
Lateral Sepals Width: 0.2cm
Lateral Sepals Caudae Length: N.A.
Lateral Sepals Caudae Width: N.A.
Petals Length: N.A.
Petals Width: 0.1cm
Judging Center: Montreal
Award Number: 20141474
Award Date: November 15, 2014
Awarded As: CCM
Montreal Botanical Garden plant.In 2014, we awarded a plant, Stelis segoviensis, a CCM84 (20141474). There are five awards granted to this species, as far as I can tell none of them were sent to SITF. In 2020, the botanist at the Botanical Garden looked into this plant and, from his research, found the plant to be Stelis pompalis. Both species are accepted names, neither is a synonym for the other. He based his identification on this:Iateral lobes of lip basally angular (Dressler 1993, Luer 1986); P. segoviensis has lateral lobes of lip basally rounded.
