Salpistele parvula Luer & Dressler 1991 SUBGENUS Salpistele
Photo by © Mike Friedwald and The Dendroboard Forum
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer and Epidendra ©
Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Salpistele
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Panama at elevations around 900 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a creeping, flexuous, 1" [2.5 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence with an inflated, oblique floral bract.
"Distinguished by the tiny, caespitose habit, the resupinate, gaping flowers are very small, the sepals measuring less than .16" [4 mm]. The petals are slender and ciliate. The tiny lip is sagittate and long-villous. Although similar in size and shape to S dressleri the lip is nearly as long as the cylindrical column. The lip od S dressleri is much smaller than the column." Luer 1991
Synonyms Stelis gnoma Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002; Stelis parvula (Luer & Dressler) Pridgeon & M.W. Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide;
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