Stelis scopulosa Luer & Hirtz 2009

SECTION Humboldtia

Drawing by Carl Luer

LATER EARLY

Common Name The Little Brushes Stelis [refers to the little bristley flowers]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Bolivar province of Ecuador at elevations around 1200 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle another blelow the middle and 1 to 2 imbricating others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer and early fall on 1 to 3, erect, strict, congested, secund, 6 to 8" [15 to 20 cm] long including the .8 to 1.6" [2 to 4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence arising through a slender spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique, acute, just shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellowish to green flowers.

"Similar to S nutans but differs in the more slender habit; sepals densely long pubscent within; petasl with an obtuse margin and a thick triangular lip with the apex narrowed and obtuse. The bar is protuberant and incised witha deep glenion." 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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