| Name | Stelis purpurea (Ruiz & Pavon) Willdenow |
| Authorship | (Ruiz & Pavon) Willdenow |
| Rank | Species |
| Placed in | Stelis Swartz |
| Citation | 1805 Sp. Pl., ed. 4 [Willd.]. 4: 140. |
| Holdings | 34 Specimens held in the Harvard University Herbaria identified as Stelis purpurea (Ruiz & Pavon) Willdenow |
| Identification made in | [no date] (5), 1941 (4), 1948 (1), 1964 (1), 1965 (2), 1966 (5), 2003 (3), 2006 (6), 2014 (3), 2016 (3), 2017 (1) |