Stelis venosa Luer & Endara 2004 SECTION Humboldtia
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
EARLY 
Common Name The Veined Stelis [refers to the sepals]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Canar province of Ecuador at elevations around 2600 to 2700 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose tubular sheathabove the middle and 2 to 3 othersat the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, subcongested, distichous, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long including the 2.4 " [6 cm] long peduncle, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, as long as the pedicel floral bracts and carrying green, glabrous flowers suffused with purple.
" A large flowered version of S patinaria with many and branching sepals and semiconnate lateral sepals that are concave below the middle. THe huge sixae of the multiveined sepal as well as the concave, semiconnate synsepal indicate the separation from S patinaria." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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