Scaphosepalum anchoriferum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1890 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photos by Charles E. Lamb
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Comparison between the Costa Rican and Ecuadorian clones
Photos by Charles E. Lamb
Common Name The Anchor-Bearing Scaphosepalum [refers to the appearance of the recurved tails of the connate sepals]
Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador in premontane and lower montane rainforests at elevations of 1100 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect to suberect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows into the slender, channeled petiole and blooms in the spring summer and fall on a slender, smooth, ascending to horizontal to descending, 6" [15 cm] long, congesteed, successively several flowered inflorescencearising from low on the ramicaul with thin floral bracts.
Synonyms *Masdevallia anchorifera Rchb. f. 1884; Masdevallia punctata Rolfe 1888; Scaphosepalum endresianum Kraenzl. 1921; Scaphosepalum naviculare Kraenzl. 1921; Scaphosepalum punctatum (Rolfe) Rolfe 1890;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as S punctatum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Masdevallia punctata drawing fide; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17(28): 435. 1921 as Scaphosepalum endresianum ;Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 17(28): 436. 1921 as S naviculare; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalu Luer 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1580 Atwood 1993 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995 photo; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Lankesteriana 19(1). 31 - 55 2019 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19[3] 271–279. Baquero 2019 photo fide
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