Stelis scalena Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Stelis
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name
Flower Size
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 others at the base. and carrying a single, apical, erect coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, peduncle 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, rachis 8 to 15 cm] long, confgested, secund, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with tubular, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying light yellow flowers.
The species is distinguished by the minutely papillose within above the middle sepals, the dorsal sepal curves forward while the considerably larger, rounded lateral sepals spread beneath. The petals are thin, truncate and single veined. The lip is oblong and concave above the middle with a large, pyramidal callus below the middle.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Ecuadorian Native Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide;
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