Stelis polyantha Luer & Hirtz 2004 SUBGENUS Stelis Duque 2008
Drawing by Carl Luer
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Orchid Photo Website
Common Name The Many Flowered Stelis
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 3300 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a close tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, congested, subsecund, 6.4 to to 8.8" [16 to 22 cm] long including the 2 to 2.4" [5 to 6 cm] long peduncle, many flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe and has broadly obtuse, tubular, inflated, as long as the lovary floral bracts and carries most of the flowers open simultaneously.
"Characterized by narrow leafes far surpassed by a slender, very congested raceme of small, light yellow flowers. The sepals are pvate and minutely pubescent; the petals re broad and single veined and the lip is shallowly subquadrate." Luer 2004
CAUTION I am not postitive with this photo determination so please use with caution, the drawing is absolutely correct. I do not like the size of the column versus the rest of the structure and the lip is different.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera A Second Ccentury of Stelis of Ecuador Epibator Ophidion Zootrophion Luer 2004 drawing ok [i do not like the size of the column versus the rest of the structure in the photos, the drawing is absolutely correct]
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