Stelis hammelii Luer 2001 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Hammel's Stelis [American Botanist and Collector of species current]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Heridia province ofCosta Rica at elevations around 100 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramciauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrolwy cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising through a slender spathe from an annulus at the apex of the ramicaul, slender, congested, disitchous, to 3.2 to 6" [8 to 15 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence and has tubular, much shorter than teh ovary floral bracts.

Similar to S cleistogama but S hammelii has a medium habit, with ramicauls shorter than the elliptical, petiolate based leaves and a shorter congested, distichous, inflorecence subtended by a much shorter spathe, with inconspicous floral bracts and ovate, obtuse sepals that are not widely spread.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 22(2): 122, f. 16 Luer 2001 drawing fide;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;

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