Stelis asplundii Luer & Endara 2007 SECTION StelisTYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name Asplund’s Stelis [Swedish Orchid Collector 1900’s]

Flower Size .12” [3 mm]

Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold, prolific growing epiphyte with slender, erect, superposed ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, gradually cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 1 to 2, erect, distichous, congested, 4 to 7.2” [10 to 18 cm] long, mostly simultaneous many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Related to S lancea but differs in the prolific habit instead of a repent habit. The leaves are ellitpical, acute, petiolate and surpassed by one to two, many flowered racemes, the sepals are broadly ovate, the petals are three veined and the lip is rounded at the paex witha single, dorsal callus." Luer 2007

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIXA Third Centurty of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Centurty of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 drawing file;

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