Typus: Dialissa pulchella Lindl. 
Flores seu urceolatae seu ventricosae, i.e., sepala inter se alte 
connata, superne semiaperta, infra ventricoso-inflata. 
Subgenus Stellata Garay, subgen. nov. 
Typus: Epidendrum trigoniflorum Sw. 
Syn.: Stelis Subgenus Eustelis Lindl. ex Cogn. in Mart., FI. 
Bras. 3(4):355, 1896. 
Stelis Subgenus Stelis Sw. ex Garay in Can. Journ. 
Bot. 34:350,1956. 
Typus: Epidendrum trigoniflorum Sw. 
Flores stellatae, 1.e., sepala similia, inter se seu bilateraliter seu 
radialiter symmetrica. 
Section Pedales Garay, sect. nov. 
Typus: Humboldtia lanceolata Ruiz & Pav. 
Syn.: Stelis-Trivalves Rchb.f. in Walp.Ann. 6: 199,1861. 
Nomen. 
Lectotypus: Srelis major Rchb.f. 
Flores stellatae; columna in pedem longum, prominentem 
producta. 
Section Distichae Lindl. ex Cogn. in Mart.,Fl. Bras. 3(4) : 343, 
1896. 
Lectotypus: Srelis disticha Poepp. & Endl., in hoc loco. 
Syn.: Srelis Sect. Eustelis Lindl., Folia Orch. Stelis 2, 1858. 
Stelis Sect. Papulosae Garay in Can.Journ. Bot. 34: 
351, 1956. 
Lectotypus: Epidendrum trigoniflorum Sw., in hoc loco. 
Stelis Sect. Fissae Garay in Can.Journ.Bot.34:351,1956. 
Lectotypus: Srelis papaquerensis Rchb.f., in hoc loco. 
Flores stellatae; labellum a latere visum in ambitu triangulare 
vel replicato-triangulare; discus semper distincte transverseque 
carinatus. 
Section Rhomboideae Garay, sect.nov. 
Typus: Srelis rhomboidea Garay 
Flores stellatae; labellum in ambitu rhombeum, longius quam 
latius, a latere visu nunquam triangulare; discus obscure vel 
non-carinatus. 
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