Stelis papaquerensis Rchb.f. 1850 SECTION Humboldtia
Plant Photos courtesy of Luiz Filipe Varella
Another Color Form Photo Courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista and Orchidstudium
Drawing Drawing by © Oscar Duque
Common Name The Papaquere Stelis
Flower Size 3/4" [1.9 cm]
Found in Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela, Peru, and Santa Catarina state of Brazil in rain forests at elevations around 200 to 1500 meters as a miniature to just medium sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect to ascending ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 basal sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong, oblong-elliptic, ovate-oblong to ovate, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 1 to 3, from near the base, 2 to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with cucullate, obtuse, shorter than the ovary flloral bracts and carrying greenish brown to purple flowers with the central apparatus in shades of brown.
Stelis papaquerensis is superficially similar to S capijumensis but it has by broader sepals that are connate to near the middle into a conical base, and shortly unguiculate petals. Also superficially similar to S freyi but it differs in the single inflorescence that surpasses the leaf more than twice its length. The many-flowered raceme is distichous with most flowers open simultaneously. The sepals are deeply connate to create a conical base to the flower. The sevenveined dorsal sepal is larger than four-veined lateral sepals. The rounded margin of the petals is broadly thickened. The lip is type A and rounded at the apex with three small calli on the dorsum.
Synonyms Stelis barrensis Lindl. 1859; Stelis diaphana Schltr. 1918; Stelis epilithica Garay 1954; Stelis fraterna Lindl. 1859; Stelis gigas Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis guttifera Porsch 1905; Stelis inaequisepala Hoehne & Schltr. 1921; Stelis juergensii Schltr. 1925; Stelis parahybunensis Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis penduliflora Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis plurispicata Barb.Rodr. 1891; Stelis porschiana Schltr. 1917; Stelis pterostele Hoehne & Schltr. 1926; Stelis puberula Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis reflexisepala Garay 1954; Stelis smaragdina Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis vinosa Barb.Rodr. 1881; Stelis vinosa var. angustifolia Cogn. 1896; Stelis vinosa var. longifolia Cogn. 1896; Stelis viridipurpurea Lindl. 1859
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Linnaea 22: 822 Rchb.f 1850;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 6 Lindley 1859 as S barrensis;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 14 Lindley 1859 as S fratena;
Fol. Orchid. 8: 3 Lindley 1859 as S viridipurpurea;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 89 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S gigas;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 84 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S parahybunensis;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 91 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S penduliflora;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 86 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S puberula;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 90 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S smaragdina;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 2: 89 Barb Rodr. 1881 as S vinosa;
Vellosia, ed. 2, 1: 120 Barb Rodr. 1891 as S plurispicata;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 374 Cogniaux 1896 as S viniosa var angustifolia;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 83 Cogniaux 1896 as S viniosa var angustifolia drawing fide
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 374 Cogniaux 1896 as S vinosa var longifolia;
Fl. Bras. 3(4): tab 83 Cogniaux 1896 as S vinosa var longifolia darwing fide;
Oesterr. Bot. Z. 55: 154 Porsch 1905 as S guttifera;
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 270 Schlechter 1917 as S porschiana;
Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 268 Schlechter 1918 as S diaphana;
Anexos Mem. Inst. Butantan, Secç. Bot. 1(2): 30 Hoehne & Schlechter 1921 as S inaequalisepala;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35: 49 Schlechter 1925 as S juergensii;
Arch. Bot. São Paulo 1: 206 Hiehne & Schlechter 1926 as S pterostele; Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 13: 36 Garay 1954 as S epilithica;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 13: 38 Garay 1954 as S reflexisepala;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958 as S viridipurpurea;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1970 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as S epilithica drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1976 as S fraterna drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as S inaequalisepala drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1976 as S puberula drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as S pterostele drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Brasilense Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1976 as S reflexisepala drawing ok; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as S porschiana drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as S smaragdina drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as S guttifera drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as S pleurispicata drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as S vinosa drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as S pterostele drawing/photo ok;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as S porschiana drawing ok/photo ok;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as S reflexisepala drawing ok/ photo ok;
Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994 as S guttifera drawing drawing ok/photo ok;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 579 Bennett & Christenson as S gigas drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as S fraterna drawing fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as S fraterna;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 as S pendulifera drawing/photo ok;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its Orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var fraterna drawing ok;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S puberula drawing ok;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var porshiana drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S refexisepala drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var tweediana drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var inaequalisepala drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paryhybunensis drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var guttifera drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 as S paquerensis var plurispicata drawing good;
The Organ Mountain Range Its History and its orchids Miller, Warren and Seehauer 2008 S vinosa drawing good;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 as S gigas drawing good;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz, A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo [Espirito Santo Brazil] Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 2 2013 as S fraterna photo fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo [Espirito Santo Brazil] Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 2 2013 as S gigas photo fide;
Orchidees du Bresil As Orquideas da Serra do Castelo [Espirito Santo Brazil] Chiron & Bolsanello Vol 2 2013 photo fide;
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