Scaphyglottis minuta [A Rich. & Galeotti] Garay 1973 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Insignificant Scaphyglottis

Flower Size 1/6" [.4 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1250 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with spreading, fasciculate branched orchid with somewhat thickened, vernicose stems enveloped basally by a few dry sheaths carrying 2, apical, obliquely patent, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal or at the nodes on stem, short inflorescence with a single flower arising on a mature stem.

CAUTION HERE several references belie this determination but I have not found what the drawings are of nor a match for this one and I can assure you that the flower was quite tiny. One of the first orchids I ever collected.

Synonyms Pachystele minuta (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Hamer & Garay 1984; *Polystachya minuta A. Rich. & Galeotti; Scaphyglottis cogniauxiana De Wild. 1905; Scaphyglottis fasciculata Hook. 1841

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen #8 29-32 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Hexidesmia fasciculata drawing/photo maybe; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing not/photo not; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 775 Hamer 1982 as Hexadesmia fasciculata drawing maybe; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1069 Hamer 1984 as Pachystele minuta drawing hmm;

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