Scaphosepalum tiaratum Luer 1981 SECTION Scaphosepalum Photo by © Duane McDowell and hisFlickr Orchid Photo Wesbsite

Another flower Photo courtesy of Akerne Orchids

Common Name The Turbaned Scaphosepalum

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 1700 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with stout, erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, erect, coriaceous, narowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the slender, channeled petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, stout, disitichous, lax, coarsly verrucose, sparsely bracted, several successively flowered, 13.2" [to 33 cm] long inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with conduplicate, oblique, elongate, acute, verrucose floral bracts with one to 2 simultaneous flowers

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo not; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1998 as as S macrodactylum photo ok?; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo photo fide;

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