Scaphosepalum jostii Luer 1998 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Deep Shade Cool LATE Fall EARLY Winter

Common Name or Meaning Jost's Scaphosepalum[American Orchid enthusiast in Ecuador current]

Flower Size.4" [1 cm]

Found in the Tungurahua Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a ascending, slender, smooth, 3 to 4.8" [7.5 to 9.5 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, several to many flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with narrowly acuminate floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XVII Luer 1998 drawing fide;

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