Stelis luteria Luer & Hirtz 2002 Section Humboldtia Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Little Bathtub Stelis [refers to the concave synsepal]

Flower Size 2/5" [1 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 1000 meters and as such is a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and another in the middle third carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, subpetiolate leaf with a conduplicatte petiole that blooms on an erect, congested, distichous, 8 to 12" [20 to 30 cm] long, successively many flowered inflorescence arising from an annulus just belwo the apex of the ramicaul and has tubular, oblique floral bracts.

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century Of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part One Luer 2002 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo maybe not are there more or less reflexed plants of this species?

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