Stelis anchorilabia O.Duque 2010 SECTION Stelis
TYPE Photos/TYPE Drawing by © Duque and The Epidendra Website
Common Name The Anchor Like Lip Stelis
Flower Size diminutuive
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in moss at elevations around 1700 meters as a medium sized, cool growing, caespitose terrestrial with terete, erect ramicauls with a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, mucronate apically, cuneate below into the long-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, distichous, to 1.68" [4.2 cm] long including the 1.2” [3 cm] long peduncle, laxly many flowered inflorescence with navicular, acute, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Orquideología Vol 27 #1 pg 5 Duque 2010 drawing/photo fide
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