Scaphyglottis longicaulis S. Watson 1888 Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Full shade Hot

Common Name The Long Stemmed Scaphyglottis

Flower Size 1/5" [5 mm]

Found in Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama,and Colombia at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect, terete, slightly swollen, cylindrical pseudobulbs carrying2, apical, narrowly linear, acute, gradually anrrwoing below into the clasping base leaves that blooms on a terminal, single flowered, short inflorescence. This species as others in the genus has the habit to grow another pseudobulb out of the apex of an older leafless growth.

Synonyms Scaphyglottis chocoana I.Bock 1984; Scaphyglottis unguiculata Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 23: 286. 1888; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 29. Panama Schlechter 1922 as S unguiculata; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 114. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S unguiculata; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1155 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids vol 4 COS 1992 photo incorrect?; Native Colombian Orchids vol 4 COS 1992 as S chocoana photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 as S chocoana drawing/photo fide

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