Stelis crassisepala Luer & R.Escobar 2017 SECTION Humboldtia

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name The Thick Sepal Stelis

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in Cauca department of Colombia at elevations around 3070 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cold growing, ascending scandent, long repent epiphyte with ascending, relatively stout ramicauls enveloped by a loose, tubular sheath and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a single, from a node below the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .4" [1 cm], rachis to 2.4 to 3.2" [6 to 8 cm] long, erect, strict, secund, loose to congested above, mostly simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow flowers with glabrous sepals and a yellow white central apparatus.

"This small, scandent species is characterized by a stout, branching rhizome with short, ascending ramicauls with elliptical leaves and an erect inflorescence about twice as long. The three sepals are concave and markedly thickened, especially toward the apices, and with the lateral sepals antrorse. The petals are 3-veined. The trilobed lip is similar to that of the frequent, widely distributed Stelis elongata Kunth." Luer 2017

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Harvard Pap. Bot. 22: 33 Luer & Escobar 2017 drawing fide

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