Scaphosepalum bicolor Luer & R.Escobar 1981
Photos by © James E McCulloch
Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Two Colored Scaphosepalum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Choco' department of Colombia at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect to suberect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the channeled, petiolate base leaf that blooms on a congested, slendre, smooth, horizontal to descending, 5.2" [13 cm] long, successively several flowered, racmose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin floral bracts
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 14 #2 Luer & Escobar 1981 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide
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