IOSPE PHOTOS

Stelis pycnochila Luer & R.Vásquez 2018 SECTION Stelis

TYPE Drawing by Š Carl Luer and Selbyana 32(1,2): 93 Luer & Vasquez 2018

LATER

Common Name The Thick Lip Stelis

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in La Paz and Cochabamba departments of Bolivia at elevations around 2400 to 2950 meters as a miniature to medium sized, cold growing, repent epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by a close, tubular sheath from below the middle and 1 to 2 others at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowing below into the long-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring and summer on an erect, arising through a spathe from below apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .08 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, rachis 2.4 to 5.2" [6 to 13 cm] long, erect, congested, distichous, simultaneously many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than to as long as the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with glabrous, yellow green sepals, yellow pwtals and a purple to brown lip.

"Although distinctly repent, clusters of ramicauls sometimes develop along the rhizome of this large species. The leaves are elliptical, acute, long-petiolate, and surpassed by a congested raceme of relatively large flowers with broadly ovate, three-veined sepals. Three-veined, concave petals extend forward and overlap part of the lateral margins of the lip. The type A lip is concave below a thick bar that is protuberant to either side of a central cleft. The lip is distinctly thicker above the middle toward the obtuse tip, and the dorsum is minutely pubescent." Luer & Vasquez 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 32(1,2): 93 Luer & Vasquez 2018

Selbyana 32(1,2): 154 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide;

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