Stelis alboviolacea Luer 2017 SECTION Humboldtia

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Harvard Pap. Bot. 22: 81 Luer 2017

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Common Name The White Purple Stelis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Choco department of Colombia at elevations around 2500 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing, long repent epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped by tubular, evanescent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, contracted below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later summer on a single, arising through a spathe within a sheath from a node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .6 to .8" [1.5 to 2 cm] long, erect, congested, strict, rachis 6.8" [17 cm] long, secund, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with purple, obique, acute, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"This long-repent, distinct species of section Humboldtia is characterized by a red-purple dorsal sepal that is longer than a white, ovoid synsepal over which it hovers. Unfortunately the flowers do not rehydrate well, leaving details of the minute central apparatus poorly visualized. The petals are concave and three-veined with the thickened, rounded margin. The minute lip is apparently transversely bilobed with the lateral lobes rounded and larger than the middle lobe." Luer 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Pap. Bot. 22: 81 Luer 2017 Drawing fide

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