Scaphyglottis micrantha (Lindl.) Ames & Correll 1942

Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Charles Wilson

Specimen Plant Photos courtesy of David Jimenez

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Common Name The Small Flowered Scaphyglottis

Flower Size 1/6" [4 mm]

Found from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Peru in montane forests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters with stipitate pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few, imbricate, scarious, triangular sheaths carrying 2, apical, suberect, linear, obtuse, conduplicate below into the base leaves with a bilobed apex that blooms on a few to many flowered, 4 2/5" [11 cm] long, slender inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb occuring in the late winter and spring.

Synonyms *Epidendrum micranthum Lindl. 1841; Hexadesmia micrantha Lindl. 1844; Pseudohexadesmia micrantha 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Edwards's Bot. Reg. 30: Misc. 2. 1844 as Hexadesmia micarantha; *Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10(4): 85. 1942; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 776 Dodson 1982