Stelis strictissima Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Stelis Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Strictest Stelis [refers to the very straight inflorescence]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1900 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphtye with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms on 2 to 3, arising through a spathe below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, straight, distichous, subdense, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long including the 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long peduncle, simultaneously several, many flowered inflorecence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary bracts and carrying purple flowers with long-pubescent sepals.
"Distinguished by 2 to 3 striaght, erect racemes that esceed thae leaf in length. The sepals are long-pubescent and ovate with the margins more or less recurves. The petals are single veined, but an additional vein occurs occasionally. The lip is transverse witha broad apex. The bar is convex the entire width witha small, slit-like glenion." 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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