Stelis stiriosa Luer & Dalström 2009 SECTION Humboldtia

Drawing by Carl Luer

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Icicle Stelis [refers to the white flowered raceme]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Imbabura province of Ecuador at elevations around 1500 to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, long-repent, branching epiphtye with ascending ramicauls enveloped by 2 ribbed, plain margined tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, suberect to pendent, coriaceous, ovate, acute, cuneate below into petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a horizontal then pendent, arising from near the apex of the ramicaul, sublax, distichous, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long including the 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with broadly infundibular, acute, longer than the ovary bracts and carrying white, glabrous flowers.

"Related t S piperiana but differs in having largere, ovate, acute leaves and the sheaths of the rhizome not minutely ciliate-papillose along the margins. A pendent several flwoered raceme in two opposite ranks exceeds the leaf. The floral bracts are dilated and surround the abse of the flowers. The dorsal sepal is antrorse and narrowly oblong and the nearly as large lateral sepals are connivent into a concave synsepal. The etpals are transversely flabellate. The minute lip has similar wing-like lobes but the prtruding middle lobe is not as slender." 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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