Stelis rimulata Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Stelis TYPE Drawing Carl Luer

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Little Fissured Stelis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations around 300 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ellitical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, from an annulus from below the apex of the ramicual, congested, distichous, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, broadly tubular, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light yellow flowers.

"Characterized by the narrowly elliptical leaves that are longer than the ramicaul and the congested raceme of numerous, small flowers that is also shorter than the leaf. The nearly free sepals appear narrowly ovate with revolute sides. The petals are single veined. The lip has round, lobe-like margins near the middle and the bar is high and deeply cleft." Luer 2004

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera A Second century of Stelis of Ecuador Epibator Ophidion Zootrophion Luer 2004 P> Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera A Second century of Stelis of Ecuador Epibator Ophidion Zootrophion Luer 2004 drawing fide;

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