Stelis tenuifolia Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Humboldtia
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
EARLY 
Common Name The Slender Leafed Stelis
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Esmeraldas province of Ecuador at elevations around 750 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing, densely caespitose to ascending epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath near the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on 1 to 3, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, erect, slender, subdense, distichous, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long including the .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously several flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, much longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar to S purpurea but characterized by the small habit with narrowly linear leaves .2" [5 mm] wide. A several-Flowered raceme of small flowers surpasses the leaves. The dorsal sepal s five veined; the petals are transversesly lunate and the lip is small, subtriangular and witha deep gleniion." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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