IOSPE PHOTOS

Stelis amethystina Luer & R.Vásquez 2018 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by Š Carl Luer and Selbyana 32(1,2): 13 Luer & Vasquez 2018

EARLY

Common Name The Vigorous Stelis [referring to the robust habit with the inflorescence fasciculate with many-flowered racemes]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath from below the middle and and 2 others below and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 2 to 4, erect, from a node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, rachis 1.6 to 3.2" [4 to 8 cm] long, erect, flexuous, successively many, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and purple carrying flowers .

"This species is distinguished by a dense fascicle of slender ramicauls and narrow, acute leaves, and congested racemes of distichous floral bracts. The sepals are purple, broadly obtuse and three-veined as are the petals. The lip is thick and type A with a large glenion. Stelis amethystina is similar to S. rutrum Luer & R.Vásquez, but differs with usually more than one raceme, smaller flowers, sepals minutely pubescent within, and a thick bar of the lip." Luer 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 32(1,2): 13 Luer & Vasquez 2018;

Selbyana 32(1,2): 129 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide

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