Stelis riozunagensis Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Stelis
TYPE Drawing Carl Luer
EARLY 
Common Name The Rio Zunag Stelis
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Pastaza province of Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 2400 meters as a small sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a large, loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others below and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, congested, distichous, 6 to 8.8" [15 to 22 cm] including the very short peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with inflated, oblique, acute, more or less imbricating, much longer thaqan the ovary floral bracts and carrying purple, glabrous flowers.
Similar to S triplicata but differs with the raceme flowering from near the base, smaller 5 veined sepals with the laterals obtusely acuminate; petals smaller, not overlapping above the column abd with only a faint tranverse callus instead of a thick, sharp edged, transverse callus and a large deep glenion." Luer 2007
Synonyms W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 drawing fide;
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