Stelis nanegalensis Lindl. 1859 SECTION Stelis
Photo by S Manning
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
Drawing by Carl Luer
Photo by © Patricia Harding
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Common Name or Meaning The Nanegal Stelis [A community in Ecuador]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Nicaragua, Panama, Venezuela, Antioquia and Nariño departments of Colombia, Pinchincha, Imbabaura, Cotopaxi, Bolivar, Morona-Santiago, El Oro ans Zamora-Chinchipe provinces of Ecuador and Amazonas and Huanuco departments of Peru and La Paz department of at elevations around 300 to 2750 meters, as a small to medium sized, hot to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheathnear the middle and 2 to 3 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf and blooms in the winter and spring on an erect, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle 1.2 to 4" [3 to 10 cm] long, 4 to 10.4" [10 to 26 cm] long, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bracts and has pale yellow to purple, large flowers with 3 conspicuous, teeth at the apex of the lip.
Most similar to S superbiens as both species have large flat flower with type "C" lips, but S nanegalensis is distinguished by three teeth at the center of the curved margin of the lip." Luer 2009
Synonyms Stelis vulcanica Schltr. 1915
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Fieldiana Botany Vol 33 1st Supplement to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 333 Dodson 1980 as S vulcanica drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1290 Dodson 1985 as S vulcanica drawing fide;
Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 as S vulcanica photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as S vulcani not photo good;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 as S vulcanica drawing fide;
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009
Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXX Lepanthes of Jamaica Stelis of Ecuador Part IV Luer 2009drawing fide;
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