Stelis pachythrix Luer & R.Escobar 2016 SECTION Stelis
Photo by N Guttierez
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATER
Common Name The Thick Haired Stelis
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Santander department of Colombia in wet montane forests at elevations around 2150 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool to cold growing, repent epiphyte with ascending, erect ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and another at the abse and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below intot he subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on a single, arising through a spathe from a node at the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long, simultaneosuly several, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying light yellow, glabrous flowers.
"This creeping, climbing species with a long, manyflowered raceme is distinct with a sparse pubescence of conspicuously thick hairs toward the margins of broadly ovate sepals. The petals are thin, circular and three-veined. The lip is a variation of type C, and shallowly concave within a smooth, thin, rounded margin." Luer 2016
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 21: 213 Luer & Escobar 2016;
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