Scaphosepalum parviflorum Luer & Hirtz 1992 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Small Flowered Scaphosepalum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a descending, arising from low on the ramicaul, peduncle smooth, 3.2" [8 cm] long, loose, flexuous, fractiflex, successively few flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the petiolate leaves and a more or less descending, successively few flowered raceme of colorful flowers. The dorsal sepal is deeply concave and tailess, the lateral sepals are alos concave but with short tails. The cushions are transverse, the petals are oblong and truncate and the lip is oblong with erose wings above the middle and a pair of erose lamellae at the junction with the deflexed, wedge shaped apex." Luer 1992
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 pg 124 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide;
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