Stelis sanchezii Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Humboldtia
Photo by The Ecuagenera Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name Sanchez's Stelis [Ecuadorian Original collector of species Current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona Santiago province of southern Ecuador without locational data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect then pendent, arising from an annulus, flexible, flexuous, lax, to 7.2" [to 18 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, successively 1 to 3, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light green, purple suffused flowers with a purple central apparatus.
"Characerized by the small, caespitose habit; elliptical leaves borne by short ramicauls and an elongating, arching to pendent, flexuous, distantly and successively flowered raceme. The sepals are broad and obtuse, the laterals semiconnate; the petals are truncate and the lip is thickly triangular, concave anteriorly below a promnent transverse bar and witha large, rounded callus on the dorsum." Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2002
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2002 drawing good;
Orquidaeceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide
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