Stelis situlifera Luer & Hirtz 2002

SECTION Humboldtia Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name or Meaning [The Bucket Bearing Stelis [refers to the deeply concave synsepal]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Loja Ecuador at elevations around 2600 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped below by 2 shorter, loose, tubular sheaths and another larger in the upper half and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on an erect, loose, distichous, 4.8" [12 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising through a spathe from an annulus below the apex of the ramicaul.with only one flower open at any one time

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV Luer 2002;