Scaphosepalum merinoi Luer 2002 SECTION Scaphosepalum
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Inflorescence Photo by © Milan Vagner
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Common Name Merino's Scaphosepalum Ecuadorian Collector of species current]
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1400 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by a basal tubualr aheatha and another above and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the long petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose to distichous, slender, verrucose, 4 3/4" [12 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXIV A First Century Of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part One Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide
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