Stelis scansor Rchb.f. 1855 SUBGENUS Stellata Duque 2008 SECTION Concave S scansor Alliance
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Original Drawings by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Scandent Stelis
Flower Size .3" [8 mm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in montane cloud forests at elevations around 2800 to 3000 meters as a miniature sized, cold growing epiphtye with an ascending rhizome giving rise to prolific, erect ramicauls enveloped by 1 to 2, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, subacute, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on 1 to 2, just shorter to just longer than the leaf, 1.6" [4 cm] long, floriferous to the base, racemose, distichous, several to many flowered inflorescence with, cucullate, infundibular basally, acuminate floral bracts.
Stelis microsynema is related to S. scansor Rchb.f., but S microsynema differs in the caespitose rather than long-repent habit, and an inflorescence about twice the length of the leaves, rather than subequal in length." Luer 2013
Synonyms Stelis prorepens Schltr 1920; Stelis scandens Schltr.1924 not Rolfe ex Rusby; Stelis trianae Schltr.1920; Stelis vagans Ames 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1920 as S prorepens; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1920 as S trianae; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis Schlechter 1922 as S vagans; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:39 Schlechter 1924 as S scandens; Orchids of Peru Vol 1 Schweinfurth 1958; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz Duque 2008 as S prorepens drawing ok; Orchidaceae Stelis Swartz A Compendium Duque 2008 drawing ok; Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 173 to 196 2013 MISCELLANEOUS NEW SPECIES IN THE PLEUROTHALLIDINAE (ORCHIDACEAE) Carlyle A. Luer & Lisa Thoerle
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