Stelis supervivens Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Stelis Drawing by Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The High Living Stelis [refers to the habitat]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Carchi province of Ecuador at elevations around 3400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose to ascending terrestrial with fasciculate, erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an erect, arising from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul; congested, secund, to .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long including the .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long peduncle, successively several flowered inflorecence with tubular, acute, as longa s the pedicel floral bracts and carrying orange flowers that remain mostly closed and all encapsulate.
"Similar to S pusilla but differs in the high elevation habitat, succulent leaves .12 to .16" [3 to 4 cm] thick, and about as long as the mature raceme. The flowers are crowded and successive. They remain mostly closed and each produces a capsule. The sepals are fleshy with thickened margins and minutely pubescent within. The petals and lip do not differ from S pusilla." 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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