Stelis zigzag Luer & Hirtz 2004 SECTION Labiatae
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
LATE
EARLY 
Common Name The Zig Zag Stelis [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 2750 meters as a miniature to small sized, cold growing, shortly repent epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on 2 to 3, arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul, erect to suberect, subcongested, distichous, flexuous, 2.8 to 4" [7 to 10 cm] long including the very short peduncle, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, dilated, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying dark purple, glabrous flowers.
"Characterized by 2 to 3 flexuous, sublax, multiflowered racemes shorter than the elliptical, long-petiolate leaf. The convex dorsal sepal stands erect over connivent, broadly obtuse, lateral seplas that are connate and concave below the middle, the petals are thick at the obtuse apex and the bar of the lip is shallowly bifurcated into a pair of rounded callii." Luer 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
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