Stelis cubicularia Luer & R.Vásquez 1981 SECTION Humboldtia
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Selbyana 32(1,2): 36 Luer & Vasquez 2018
EARLY
Common Name The Bed Chamber Stelis [referring to the concave synsepal]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in La Paz department of Bolivia at elevations around 1500 to 2800 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender, densely fasciculate ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 1 to 2 sheaths below the middle and at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 1 to 3, erect, arisng througha spathe froma node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle.8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, rachis 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long, erect, strict, distichous, congested, simutaneously many, many flowered inflorescence with tubular,a cute, shorter to as longa s the ovary floral bracts and carrying light yellow green flowers.
"This caespitose species is characterized by a slender ramicauls with slender leaves that are surpassed by one to three densely flowered racemes of small flowers. The dorsal sepal is three-veined, and the lateral sepals are connate into a deeply concave synsepal. single-veined petals that clasp the expanded, protruding stigmatic lobes; and the flat-topped lip is more or less trowel-shaped, deeply and widely concave below the bar, and with an obtuse, incurved tip. Luer & Vasquez 2018
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Phytologia 49: 226 Luer & Vasquez 1981;
Selbyana 32(1,2): 36 Luer & Vasquez 2018
Selbyana 32(1,2): 136 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 as S cf.cubicularis photo fide;
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