Scaphosepalum clavellatum Luer 1976 SECTION Distichium Luer 1988
Another Angle Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Plant and Flowers Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Another Flower Photos courtesy of Patricia Harding
Common Name The Nail-Like Scaphosepalum
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from Costa Rica south to Panama and then in Ecuador only at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a singler, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that narrows gradually below into the slender petiole and blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a congested, distichous, slender, smooth, ascending to descending, 8" [20 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence with one or 2 flowers open at any one time, arising from low on the ramicaul and having, triangular, acute floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1581 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide;
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