Stelis azuayensis Luer 2009 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Azuay Stelis [refers to the province in Ecuador where the species is found]
Flower Size .24” [6 mm]
Found in Azuay province of Ecuador at elevations around 2500 to 3000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath 1 to 2 others that are shorter at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, congested, 4 to 6” [10 to 15 cm] long including the 1.2 to 2” [3 to 5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneous many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to S esmeraldae but differs in the one to three, much longer, congestede racemes with large floral bracts. The petals are only a trifle larger than the lip while S esmeraldae has petals three times larger. The lips are very similar." Luer 2009
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 drawing good;
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