Scaphosepalum breve (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1890 SECTION Scaphosepalum Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Short Scaphosepalum [refers to the smaller flower]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found from the Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and also in Bolivia at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows to the slender, channeled petiole that blooms on a loose, sharply flexuous, verrucose, slender, successively several to many flowered, 2" to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with conduplicatet floral bracts.

Synonyms *Masdevallia brevis Rchb. f. 1883; Scaphosepalum nutans Kraenzl. 1922; Scaphosepalum trachypus Schltr. 1919

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 2 1969 Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 doesn't match

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