Stelis sumacoensis Luer & Hirtz 2002 SECTION Humboldtia
Photo by M Gamboa
TYPE drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Sumaco Volcano Stelis
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevatiojns around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphtye with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a more or less arching to pendent, arising from below the apex of the ramicaul, lax, to 4" [to 10 cm] long including the .8" [2 cm] long peduncle, successively 2 to 3, several flowered inflorecence with infundibular, subacute, just shorter than teh ovary floral bracts and carrying transluscent, non-resupinate purple flowers.
"Characterized by a caespitose habit of narrowly obovate leaves witha loose, flexible, successively flowered racemes surpassing the leaves. The weight of the flowers bends the raceme, and eventually becomes pendent with non-resupinate flowers. The synsepal is deeply concave, the petals are thicklysemilunate and concave below the apical margin and concave below the transverse callus. The paex of the lip is round and the glenion is elevated, narrowly oblong and minutely channeled." Luer 2002
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera A Second Century of Stelis of Ecuador Luer 2002 Drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide;
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