Stelis subtilis Luer & Dalström 2004 SECTION Labiatae
Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE 
EARLY 
Common Name The Dainty Stelis [refers to the raceme]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 2150 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, shortly repent to fasciculate epiphtye with erect slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath and 2 to 3 others at the base carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, very congested, secund, to 3.2 to 5.2" [8 to 13 cm] long including the .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorecence with oblique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying light yellow green flowers with glabrous sepals.
"Characterized by the shortly repent habit; narrowly linear leaves longer than the ramicuals, a slender, many flowered raceme longer than the leaves; very small flowers with connivent lateral sepals; single veined petals and a discoid lip." Luer 2004
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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