Stelis tunariensis Luer & R.Vásquez 2018

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and Selbyana 32(1,2): 120 Luer & Vasquez 2018

EARLY

Common Name The Tunari Stelis [Named for Villa Tunari, the community near the area where the species was collected]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Cochabamba department of Bolivia at elevations around 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect slender, ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath from below the middle and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, without an obvious spathe from a node at the apex of the ramicaul, peduncle .8" [2 cm] long, rachis .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long, erect, loose, flexuous, successively single, more or less 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with oblique, close, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with rose brown sepals, urple petals anda purple lip.

"This small, caespitose species from low-land forest north of Cochabamba in the vicinity of Villa Tunari is related to Stelis carnosipetala Luer & R.Vásquez. Stelis tunariënsis Luer & R.Vásquez is a smaller plant with more, smaller flowers with rose-brown, minutely pubescent, sepals. Although also thick, the petals are concave, not solidly convex." Luer & Vasquez 2018

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Selbyana 32(1,2): 120 Luer & Vasquez 2018

Selbyana 32(1,2): 163 Luer & Vasquez 2018 Drawing fide;

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