Stelis nambijae Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
EARLIER 
Common Name The Nambija Stelis [A Community in the Cordillera del Condor Ecuador]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Zamora Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, repent epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and earlier fall on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, congested, 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long including the .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously few, many flowered inflorescence with obliquely infundibular, obtuse, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying lavender white-cilaite flowers.
"Distinguished by a stout, creeping rhizome, elliptical, petioalte leaves and a raceme shorter or nearly equalling the leaf in length. The sepals are lavender and white-ciliate, broadly ovate, obtuse and 5 veined. The petals are semilunate and three veined. The lip is distinctive with a proportionally large, erect, protruding callus [the midified bar] that fills the center aove the concave, rounded apex." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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