Stelis panguiensis Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Pangui Stelis [A community near where the species was found]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, congested, secund, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long including the to .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneouly many flowered inflorescence with narrowly oblique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light green, minutely ciliate and short pubescent flowers.
"Characterized by a narrowly elliptical, petiolate leaf that is slightly longer than the ramicaul and about as long as the congested, secund raceme of light green flowers. The sepals are shortly pubescent and the petals are broadly subquadrate and single veined. The type "B" lip is cuneate with a shallowly concave, acute tip." 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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