Stelis scansor Rchb.f. 1855 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Scandent Stelis
Flower Size .3" [8 mm]
Found in Nariño and Cauca departments of Colombia, Imbabure, Napo, Cañar and Azuay provinces of Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, long repent epiphtye with an ascending, stout rhizome giving rise to prolific, erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, just shorter to just longer than the leaf, 1.6" [4 cm] long, floriferous to the base, racemose, distichous, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with, cucullate, infundibular basally, acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers that are glabrous expernally and cellular-papillose within.
Stelis microsynema is related to S. scansor Rchb.f., but S microsynema differs in the caespitose rather than long-repent habit, and an inflorescence about twice the length of the leaves, rather than subequal in length." Luer 2013 Characerized by a branching, repent habit which produces great tangled masses. The elliptical leaves more or less equal the ramicauls in length. The crowded flowered racemes are as long as or a little longer than the leaf. The sepals are ovate; the petals are transversely flabellate andf the very small type "B" lip is subquadrate with the centrl callus thick witha glenion." Luer 2009
Synonyms Stelis prorepens Schltr 1920; Stelis trianae Schltr.1920; Stelis vagans Ames 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Bonplandia (Hannover) 3: 241 Rchb.f 1855;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 92 Schlechter 1920 as S prorepens;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 92 Schlechter 1920 as S trianae;
Schedul. Orchid. 1: 8 Ames 1922 as S vagans
Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1922 as S vagans;
Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:39 Schlechter 1924 as S scandens;
Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 as S prorepens drawing ok;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador part IV Luer 2009
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador part IV Luer 2009 Drawing fide
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok;
Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173 to 196 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer & Lisa Thoerle 2013
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