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| name = ''Stenia''
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| growth_habit = ?   <!--- tree, shrub, herbaceous, vine, etc -->
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| origin = ?   <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc -->
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| lifespan = perennial
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| color = IndianRed
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| regnum = Plantae
| divisio = Magnoliophyta
| classis = Liliopsida
| ordo = Asparagales
| familia = Orchidaceae
| subfamilia = Epidendroideae
| tribus = Maxillarieae
| subtribus = Zygopetalinae
| genus = Stenia
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Stenia (Greek, narrow, alluding to the form of the pollen-masses). Orchidaceae. Epiphytic herbs with short sts. and clustered pseudobulbs which bear 1-2 lvs., grown occasionally in the warmhouse: lvs. oblong or narrow, leathery, midrib prominent: scapes short at the axils of the sheaths, below the Lvs. or pseudobulbs, recurved, with 1 rather large fl.; sepals subequal, free among themselves, spreading, the lateral a little broader; petals similar to the dorsal sepals; labellum continuous with the foot of the column, inbent, fleshy, broad, concave, nearly saccate, the lateral lobes minute, midlobe undivided or all broader and fimbriate; column rather thick and erect; pollinia 4, oblong-linear: caps. unknown. Two species, Trop. S. Amer. Treatment much as in maxillaria. S. guttata, Reichb. f., is similar to the following, but differs in having blunter sepals and petals which are straw-colored with purple spots and in the lip being blotched and having only seven callous teeth. Peru. S. pallida, Lindl. St. wanting: lvs. 2-5, oblong, acute, slightly narrowed and keeled at the base, sheathed with brownish spathaceous scales: scapes radical, prostrate: fls. pale citron-color, 1 1/2 in. or more diam.; sepals and petals linear, acute; lip spotted with red, nearly saccate, entire, fleshy, ovate. Guiana.
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==Cultivation==
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==Species==
* ''[[Stenia angustilabia]]'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1998) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia aurorae]]'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1998) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia bismarckii]]'' Dodson & D.E.Benn. (1989)( S. Ecuador to Peru)
* ''[[Stenia calceolaris]]'' (Garay) Dodson & D.E.Benn. (1989) (Ecuador to N. Peru)
* ''[[Stenia christensonii]]'' D.E.Benn. (1998).(Peru)
* ''[[Stenia falcata]]'' (Ackerman) Dressler (2004)
* ''[[Stenia glatzii]]'' Neudecker & G.Gerlach (2000) (Ecuador)
* ''[[Stenia guttata]]'' Rchb.f. (1880)(Peru)
* ''[[Stenia jarae]]'' D.E.Benn. (1992) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia lillianae]]'' Jenny ex D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1994) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia luerorum]]'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1998) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia nataliana]]'' R.Vásquez & Nowicki & R.Müll. (2001) (Bolivia)
* ''[[Stenia pallida]]'' Lindl. (1837) (Trinidad,  Guyana,  Venezuela,  EcuadorPeru)
* ''[[Stenia pastorellii]]'' D.E.Benn. (1992) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia pustulosa]]'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1994) (Peru)
* ''[[Stenia saccata]]'' Garay (1969) (Ecuador)
* ''[[Stenia stenioides]]'' (Garay) Dodson & R.Escobar (1993) (Ecuador)
* ''[[Stenia uribei]]'' P.Ortiz (2004) (Colombia)
* ''[[Stenia vasquezii]]'' Dodson (1989) (Bolivia)
* ''[[Stenia wendiae]]'' D.E.Benn. & Christenson (1994) (Peru)

Stenia Synonyms: ''Stenopolen'' Raf., (1838)., ''Dodsonia'' Ackerman (1979)

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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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