Stelis peduncularis Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The Remarkable Peduncle Stelis [refers to the elongate peduncle]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute to subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising from below the apex of the ramicaul, very congested, slender, to 6" [to 15 cm] long including the 4 " [10 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several, many flowered inflorescence with infundibular, oblique, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple flowers.
"Similar to S congesta but differs in the much shorter ramicauls, the inflorescence that far exceeds the leaves with a peduncle twice as long as the leaves. The floral bracts as distinctly longer. The raceme is very congested with overlapping, rounded flowers with proportionally broader sepals. The transvese callus of the petals is thick, otherwise the petals and lip are similar." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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