Stelis rhomboidea Garay 1956 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © M Rincon
Drawing by © Carl Luer
Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Rhomboid Stelis
Flower Size .3" [8 mm]
Found in Cundinamarca department of Colombia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2800 to 2900 meters as a just small sized, cold growing, caespitose or from a short rhizome epiphtye with slender, erect, ramicauls basally enveloped by 2 to 3 sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic-oblong, obtuse and tridenticulate apically, narrowing below in to the petiolate base leaf that blooms on a solitary, arising through a compressed spathe, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, racemose, erect, distichous, laxly few flowered inflorescence with beaked downward at the apiculate apex, cucullate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying dark purple flowers.
A small plant with a slender, few flowered inflorescence with beaked floral bracts, a long, rhomboid lip, and suborbicular single veined petals. Similar to S rhombilabia.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 Drawing ok;
Harvard Pap. Bot. 23: 41 Luer & Escobar 2018 drawing fide;
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