Stelis papulina Luer & Dalström 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Papulose Stelis [refers to the tips of the sepals]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, loose, subflexuous, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long including the 1.2" [3 cm] long peduncle, successively 1 to 2, several flowered inflorescence with broadly infundibular, obtuse, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying tannish yellow, glabrous flowers with the minutely papillose.
"Distinguished from all others by the apical margins of the sepals minutely pappillose. The flowes are produced successively on a loose, subflexuous raceme that eventually surpasses the leaf. The sepals are broadly ovate, the dosal larger than teh laterals and the petals are transverse and concave. The lip is suborbicualr, concave anteriorly with an elevated glenion." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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