Stelis platypetala Luer & Dalström 2002 SECTION Humboldtia

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name or Meaning The Wide Petal Stelis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in El Oro and Pichincha provinces of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a tublar sheath and another 1 to 2 at the base and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-oblong, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, arching peduncle 1.2 to 2" [3 to 5 cm] long, arising through an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 3.6 to 6" [9 to 15 cm] long, congested, mostly simultaaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, inflated, as long as the ovary floral bract and carrying flowers with a purple, glabrous dorsal sepal and yellow lateral sepals, purple petals and a purple lip.

"Characterized by the densely caespitose habit and a sensely many flowered raceme surpassing the onlong leaf. The dosal sepal is broadly ovate and the synsepal is deeply concave. The petals are proportionally large, round and flat. The apex of the lip is sharply acute." Luer 2002

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century or Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2002

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century or Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2002 Drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide

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