| dc.description.abstract | Stenotyla lankesteriana (Pupulin) Dressler,
Lankesteriana 5:96 (2005). Basionym:
Chondrorhyncha lankesteriana Pupulin,
Lindleyana 15:21 (2000). Type: Costa Rica.
Without definite locality, a confiscated
plant flowered in cultivation at Lankester
Botanic Garden at Paraíso de Cartago,
1,400 m,19 May 1999, F. Pupulin 1467
(holotype USJ; isotype SEL-spirit!).
An epiphytic, caespitose, fan-shaped
herb to about 20 cm tall. Pseudobulb
vestigial, ovoid, complanate, ca. 10 x 4-5
mm, completely hidden by the leaf sheaths,
apically provided with a rudimentary
leaf and enclosed by 5–9 distichous
sheaths, the upper ones foliaceous. Leaves
subcoriaceous, oblanceolate to linearlanceolate, acute, with slightly undulate
margins, 7–20 × 1–1.3 cm, contracted at
the base into a conduplicate petiole to
2.8 cm long. Inflorescences 1–2 per shoot,
erect to gently arched, single-flowered,
lateral, produced from the base of the stem
and arising from the axil of basal cataphylls;
peduncle terete, stout, 3.2–4.2 cm long,
provided with a funnel-shaped, broadly
ovate, acute bract 7 mm long. Floral bract
conspicuous, funnel-shaped, acute to
acuminate, 7 mm long. | |
