Stelis pactensis Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Nexipous
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pacto Stelis [A Community in Pichincha Ecuador]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1700 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a loose, spotted, tubular sheath on the middle third and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly ovate, coriaceous, acute, cuneate into the petiolae base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, disitichous, subdense, 4.8 to 6.4" [12 to 16 cm] long including the to 2" [to 5 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneouly many flowered inflorescence with tubular, oblique acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying minutely pubescent flowers with purple black externally, purple with olive within sepals and a purple brlack central apparatus.
"Similar to S juininensis but distinguished by the purple black obtuse sepals that are concave basally into a shallow cup for the petals, lip and column. The petals of both species are lareg and fleshy. The lip of S pactensis is obtuse instead of acute and the dorsum is flat and shallowly concave." Luer 2007
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 drawing fide;
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