Stelis rostrata Luer 2009 SECTION Stelis TYPE Drawing Carl Luer

EARLIER

Common Name The Beaked Stelis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Guayas province of Ecuador at elevations around 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, acute, contracted below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the earlier winter on an erect, arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, congested, to 4.8" [to 12 cm] long including the 1.6" [4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously, several to many flowered inflorescence with infundibular, oblique, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying whitish flowers suffused with brownish purple externally.

"Characterized by the caespitose habit with acute, elliptical leaves and a longer denely flowered raceme of numerous white flowers. The tiny sepals are pusiculate within with the lateral sepals held forward. The petals are single veined. The lip is shallowly obovate, modified type"B" with the depth only .75 mm. The column is proportionally large wwith an imposing beak-like apex. The stigmatic lobes are contiguous below the clinandrium." Luer 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Setlis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Setlis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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