Stelis parvilabris Lindl. 1845 SECTION Humboldtia
Photo by © M Rincon
Original Drawing by © Dunsterville
Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Small Lipped Stelis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Venezuela and Cauca department of Colombia in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2900 to 3400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphtye with erect ramicauls almost completely enveloped by 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliprtic-oblong, subacute, tridenticulate, narrowing below intothe petiolate base leaf that blooms on an erect, [4 to 9 cm] long, racemose, distichous, subdensely many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe and has cucullate-navicular, acute, shorter than the ovary bracts that cover the pedicel and carrying yellowish green bilabiate flowers.
"A stout plant with bilabiate flowers, thin, oblong petals and a very peculiar labial structure. It is related to S bogotense in the lip structure but this last species is a very small plant." Oscar Duque 2008
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. 15: 385 Lindley 1845;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville and Garay 1966 drawing fide;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Parte 2 Foldats 1970 drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing good;
* Harvard Pap. Bot. 23: 38 Luer & Escobar 2018 Drawing fide
LANKESTERIANA 23(2). Karremans, Moreno, Gil-Amaya, Morales, Espinosa, Mesa, Restrepo, Rincon-Gonzales, Serna, Sierra-Ariza and Vieira-Uribe 2023 as Stelis parvilabris photo fide;
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