Stelis neudeckeri Luer & Dodson 2004 SECTION Humboldtia
Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Neudecker's Stelis [German Co-Collector of species current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations around 1450 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect, prolific ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and another beneath the middle and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, arising througha spathe from below the apex of the ramicaul, distichous, to 4 to 4.8" [10 to 12 cm] long including the 1.6" [4 cm] long peduncle, loosely, successively few, several flowered inflorescence with ovate-cucullate, apiculate, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying brownish, bilabiate flowers.
"Characterized by a densely caespitose habit with frequently prolific ramicauls. The stout loose, several flowered raceme exceeds the leaf. The flowers are large witha deeply concave synsepal. The margins of the crescent shaped petals are broad and smooth. The lip is shallow with the anterior surface smooth, nearly flat and broadly rounded." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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