Stelis remifolia Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Oar-Shaped Leaf Stelis
Flower Size .28" [7 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, obovate, obtuse to rounded, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicual, congested, distichous, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long including the .4" [1 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple, glabrous flowers with thin yellow margins on the sepals.
"Distinguished by the smaller habit with obovate, paddle shaped leaves borne by short ramicauls and conspicuous floral bracts in a raceme not much longer than the leaves. Similar to S argentata in the obtuse, three veined, minutely pubescent within sepals. but the petals are transversely ovate and concave and the lip is short with the apex broadly rounded and minutely apiculate." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ,
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