Stelis pelycophora Luer & Hirtz 2007 SECTION Humboldtia Photo by © The Ecuagenera Website

Type DrawingDrawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Bowl Bearing Stelis [refers to the synsepal]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Carchi Ecuador at elevations around 1500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath and 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, loose, to 12" [to 30 cm] long including the 2.8" [7 cm] long peduncle, successively few, many flowered inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul with oblique acute floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIX Luer 2007 drawing fide;

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