Stelis satyrica Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Satyr Stelis [A mythological woodland diety]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2750 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose-prolific epiphyte with erect, stout, superposed ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others below and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, narrowing 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 near the apex of the ramicaul, arching, loose, distichous, 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long including the .12 to .16" [3 to 4 mm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with infundibular, oblique, acute,shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous flowers without color notes.
"This little caespitose sepcies oocasionally has a superposed ramicaul. The long pedunculate, arching, subflexuous raceme ogf tiny flowers exceeds the leaf. The half closed flowers are superficially similar to S pudens with proportionally large petals, lp and column. The petals are transverse and faintly three veined. The lip is subquadrate and more or less flat with a low, oblong callus along the middle third and minutely pubescent in microscopic rows at the base opposite ht minutely pubescent shaft of the column, reminioscent of the lip and column of Physosiphon inaequisepalus."
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematicas of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 drawing fide;
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