IOSPE PHOTOS

Stelis darwinii Luer & R.Vásquez 2018 SECTION Humboldtia

TYPE Drawing by Š Carl Luer and Selbyana 32(1,2): 37 Luer & Vasquez 2018

EARLY

Common Name Darwin's Stelis [Named for Darwin Ric of Montero, Santa Cruz, co-collector of this species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 1700 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 tubular sheaths at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on a single, , erect, arising through a slender spathe from a node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle stout, 1.6 to 2.4" [4 to 6 cm] long, rachis 8.4 to 9.2" [21 to 23 cm] long, erect, strict, secund, congested, simultaneously many, numerous flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"This large, caespitose species is similar to Stelis nutans Lindl., but is distinguished by a stouter habit with twice larger flowers. The dorsal sepal is three-veined, and barely five-veined at the base of one collection. The synsepal is rounded and shallowly concave. The lip is triangular and obtuse with a deep glenion descending from a cleft across the bar." Luer & Vasquez 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 32(1,2): 37 Luer & Vasquez 2018

Selbyana 32(1,2): 136 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------