Stelis ninguida Luer & Dalström 2007SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Snowy Stelis [refers to the flowers color]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Sucumbios province of Ecuador at elevations around 2300 meters as a small sized, cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on 1 to 2, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, congested, secund, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long including the 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with dilated, acute, just shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying snow white flowers.
"Vegetatively similar to S striolata with acute, narrowly elliptical,, petiolate leaves borne by much longer ramicauls and more or less equalled by 1 to 2 racemes.The flowers are relatively large and snow white. The sepals are broadly ovate and the petals are thickened with a transverse callus. The apex of the lip is broad, rounded and flattened anteriorly and a large round callus nearly fills the dorseum." Luer 2007
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007drawing fide;
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