Stelis septicola Luer & Endara 2007 SECTION Stelis
Drawing by Carl Luer
EARLY
Common Name The Fence Dwelling Stelis [refers to the indescisive relationship among the species of the genus]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Guayas province of Ecuador at elevations around 270 to 500 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a long, tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the ill-defined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on an erect, arising through a spathe from near the apex of the ramicaul, 4 to 6.8" [10 to 17 cm] long including the 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several, many flowered inflorescence.
"This specis has a relationship with Physosiphon inaequalisepala with a thin erect raceme of numerous, tiny flowers with several open simultaneousy surpasses the leaf. The .04" [1 mm] long sepals are nearly round ; the petals are single veined and the type "B" lip is scaphoid witha basal callus." Luer 2007
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX A Third Century of Stelis of Ecuador Systematics of Apoda-Prorepentia Luer 2007 drawing fide;
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