Stelis beniënsis Luer 2018 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Beni Stelis [refers to the orchid being found in the Department of Beni of Bolivia]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Beni department of Bolivia at elevations around 850 to 900 meters as a small sized, warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath below the middle and 2 to 3 others below and at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on 1 to 4, erect, arising through a spathe at a node below the apex of the ramicaul, congested, distichous, peduncle 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] long, 4.6 to 6.8" [12 to 17 cm] long overall, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

"Similar to S hylophila a higher elevation orchid, from which it differs in only trivial features, except for the markedly different lip which is type A, subquadrate, not longer than wide, witha thick, conspicuous, bilobed bar that is glabrous dorsally. S hylophila has a lip that is longer than wide with a simply curved bar and is minutely pubescent on the dorsum." Luer & Vasquez 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 32(1,2): 22 Luer & Vasquez 2018

Selbyana 32(1,2): 131 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide

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