Stelis satyrella Luer & Hirtz 2009 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer

EARLY

Common Name The Small Satyr Stelis [A mythological woodland diety]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1250 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing, scandent epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender to stout, prolific ramicauls enveloped by a long tubular sheath above and 1 to 2 shorter ones at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, distichous, strict, congested, 2" [5 cm] long including the 1" [2.5 cm] long peduncle, more or less simultaneously several flowered inflorescence arising from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique, acute, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying white, glabrous flowers.

"Similar to the souther Ecuadorian S ramulosa but the racemes of S satyrella are strict and do not surpass the leaf in length but the flowers are similar in the closed sepals. The present pecimen is with swollen ovarise but the floral parts are still fresh. The petals are proportionally wider with a transverse callus. Instead of flat with a very short length from back to front, the lip is thickly quadrate and deeply concave with thin margins and the bar is deeply cleft." Luer 2009

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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

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

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