Scaphyglottis prolifera Cogn. 1898

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Bogarin/Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

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Common Name The Prolific Scaphyglottis

Flower Size 3/16" to 1/2" [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Trinidad and the Windward Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in hot low rainforests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters with segmented, cylindric pseudobulbs with segments that become smaller apically and can sometimes branch to two, subtended by basal sheaths with two apical, subcoriaceous, lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate at the base blooming on a terminal, fasciculate, short, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence that holds the successive flower against the leaf base and occurs in the fall and early winter.

Synonyms Isochilus proliferum sensu Lindley 1824 non [Sw.]R. Br.; Ponera mapiriensis Kraenzl. 1928; Ponera prolifera Rchb. f. 1854; Scaphyglottis cuneata Schltr. 1918; Scaphyglottis gracilis [Schlechter] Schlechter 1923; Scaphyglottis wercklei Schltr. 1923; Tetragamestus gracilis Schltr. 1918;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 286 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1157 Dodson 1984; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1583 Atwood 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 180 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004; Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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