Stelis ramosii Luer 2009 SECTION Stelis

Drawing by Carl Luer

Common Name Ramos' Stelis [Ecuadorian Collector of species current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Cotopaxi province of Ecuador at elevations around 2100 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, contracted below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, lax, to 8" [to 20 cm] long including the 3.2" [8 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with infundibular, oblique, acute, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts.

"Relateed to S calolemma but differ by the larger, robust habit and larger flwoers witha five veined dorsal sepal. The lips are similarily deeply concave witha thin, broadly rounded margin, but instead of a conical callus of the bar as in S calolemma, a pair of erect lamellae flank a prominent glenion." Luer 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Prtt IV Luer 2009

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009 drawing fide;

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