Scaphosepalum beluosum Luer 1979 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988

Another Color Variation Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Side View of Flower Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

EARLY

Common Name The Monsterous Flower Scaphosepalum

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador on the western slopes of the Andes at elevations af 1500 to 2200 meters in cloud forests as a small to medium sized, robust, cool to warm growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, subacute leaf that is cuneate below to the slender channeled petiole that blooms in the fall through early spring on a loose, distichous, 2 to 6" [5 to 15 cm] long, successively several to many flowered, racemose inflorescence holding the flowers beneath the leaf and with 2 simultaneous opening flowers at a time.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004;

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