Stelis nexipous Garay 1958 SUBGENUS Nexipous Duque 2008
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photos by © Milan Vagner
Photo courtesy of Walter Teague.
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Webfoot Stelis [refers to the flowers shape]
Flower Size .1" [2 mm]
Found in Pastaza, Napo, Tungurhua, Morona-SAntiago, Loja and Zamora Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 700 to 2400 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls partially enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-ligulate, subobtuse, attenuate below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, occasionally arcuate, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long, rachis 3.2 to 10.4" [8 to 26 cm] long, secund simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple flowers with the sepals glabrous and shiny purple externally, olive green to red-purple within.
"Vegetatively similar to many in the genus, but florally it is distinguished by nutant flowers all facing in one direction and overlapping in 2 ranks. The deep connation between the lateral sepals amd the dorsal sepal and the shallow connation betwen the lateral sepals below the central apparatus into a flat, three lobed, fan-shaped flower is distinctive." Luer 2009
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 194 Garay 1958; P>* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 194 Garay 1958 drawing fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 27: 183 Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 drawing fide;
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