Scaphosepalum cimex Luer & Hirtz 1988 SECTION Leiocaulinum
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Ecuador species orchid site
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common NameThe Bug-Like Scaphosepalum [refers to the flowers shape]
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1250 meters in wet forests as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate belwo into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a slender, smooth, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, ascending to horizontal or pendant, loose, successively several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin acuminate floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide
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