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

Another Aspect Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton

Another Flower Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

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Common Name The Many Hump-Like Swelling Peduncle Scaphosepalum

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in the Andes of Antioquia, Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters as a small to just medium in size, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 short, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below to the slender channeled petiole that blooms in the fall and spring on an erect, loose, 20" [50 cm] long, flexuous, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with narrow, conduplicate, acute floral bracts.

Synonyms *Masdevallia gibberosa Rchb. f. 1876

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995 photo

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