Stelis caroliae Luer 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY
Common Name Carol’s Stelis [Ms Lindberg, American Co-collector of species current]
Flower Size .2” [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growingcaespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, strict, secund, loosely flowered below, congested above, 4.8” [12 cm] long including the 1.6” [4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising from through a vestigal spathe below the apex of the ramicaul with obtuse, oblique, as long as the pedicel floral bracts.
"Disitnguished by a small, caespitose habit with narrowly elliptical leaves borne by a shorter ramicaul with loose sheaths. The small flowered inflorescence is secund and exceeds the elaf. The sepals are ovate with the laterals held more or less forward, the petals are tiny and concave below the thickened apex and a protruding cleft bar fills the center of the lip." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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