Stelis millenaria Luer 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The 1 Millimeter Stelis [refers to the sepal length]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 1950 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by short, tubular sheath near the middle and 2 others about the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly ovate, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 2, arising from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, sublax, 1.4 to 1.6" [3.5 to 4 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow green flowers.
" Closely related to S bicarinata, but it has twice larger vegetative measures and nearly thrice larger floral dimensions. The minute sepals of S millenaria are suborbicular, and .04" [1 mm] long, excluding the disheveled long-ciliate margin. The petals are single veined and the apex of the twice smaller lip is broadly rounded instead of shortly acuminate." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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