Salpistele dressleri Luer 1991 SUBGENUS Salpistele
Drawing by © Woodstream Orchids Website
TYPE Drawing by Luer © and The Epidendra Website
Common Name or Meaning The Boat Shaped Petal Salpistele
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Panama near Fortuna dam at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute to subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a more or less creeping, flexuous, 2.4" [6 cm] long, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from high on the ramicaul with an oblique floral bract.
"Distinguished by the narrow, yellow brown sepals, a slender but deeply concave or boat-shaped dorsal sepal and synsepal, slender, linear petals, a much smaller lip with slender, sparsely long-ciliate lateral lobes and descending midlobe and a comparitively small, elliptical surface of the apex of the column." Luer 1991
Synonyms Stelis cymbisepala Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2002; Stelis dressleri (Luer) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthospsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide; Lindleyana 16(4): 262. 2001 as Stelis dressleri; Lindleyana 16(4): 262. 2001 as Stelis dressleri; *Lindleyana 17(2): 98-99. 2002 as Stelis cymbisepala
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