Stelis uribeorum Luer & R.Escobar 2017 SECTION Nexipous
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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EARLY
Common Name The Uribe's Stelis [Named for Andrea and Juan Carlos Uribe of Orquídeas del Valle, Cali, Colombia, in whose nursery this species was being cultivated]
Flower Size
Found in Valle dse Cauca department of Colombia at unkn own elevations as a small sized, cool to cold growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath below the middle and 1 to 2 others below and at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later winter and early spring on a single, arising througha narrow spathe from a node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, rachis 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, erect, congested, in two opposing ranks, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with tubular, obtuse, as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying shiny dark purple. glabrous flowers.
"This species and the closely related Stelis megaloglossa are unusual members of section Nexipous. Stelis uribeorum is characterized by a narrow, elliptical leaf and a shorter, double-ranked raceme of shiny, dark purple flowers. The rows crowded flowers with a large, rounded dorsal sepal are reminiscent of shelves lined with a collection of human skulls in a museum. The smaller lateral sepals are connate below the middle. The central apparatus is minute, the petals are 3-veined, and the apex of the lip is triangular. Stelis uribeorum is similar to Stelis megaloglossa, but it is distinguished from the latter by the raceme that does not exceed the leaf, and larger flowers with twice larger, spreading lateral sepals that are connate only toward the base." Luer & Escobar 2017
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Harvard Pap. Bot. 2[1]]: 60 Luer, Thoerle & Werner 2017 drawing fide
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