!Discyphus scopulariae (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1919
Photos by © A. V. Popovkin, Bahia, Brazil. and His 'Orchids of the Restinga area of Bahia, Brazil', Website
Drawing by © Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Common Name The Branching Discyphus
Flower Size .1" [3mm]
Found in Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela and Brazil in rain forests in deep shade at elevations around 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a single, basal, flat to the ground, rounded, short acuminate, basally deeply cordate, shortly petiolate base leaf that is almost perfectly circular and blooms in the summer on an erect, peduncle 4.2 to 6.8" [10.5 to 17 cm] long, slender, provided with 1 to 2, acute, short, externally glandular sheathing bracts, rachis densely shortly pubescent, to 2.8 to 4.8" [7 to 12 cm] long, strict, laxly, successively few to many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, externally densely glandular, nearly twice as long as the ovary floral bracts.
"This species is hard to confuse with any other terrestrial orchid in the new world by its reniform, ground-hugging leaf combined with narrowly tubular flowers with prominent auricles on the lip. The variety longiauriculata differs from the type in the lip auricles distinctly longer than the hypochile and thickened only in the apical third." Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019
Synonyms Cyclopogon rotundifolius (Cogn.) Schltr. 1920; Dikylikostigma preussii Kraenzl. 1919; Discyphus scopulariae var. longiauriculata Szlach. 1992; Gyrostachys scopulariae (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; Spiranthes rotundifolia Cogn. 1906; *Spiranthes scopulariae Rchb.f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Bonplandia 2: 11 Rchb.f 1854 as Spiranthes scopulariae;
Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 664 Kuntze 1891 as Gyrostachys scopulariae
* Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 15: 417 Schlechter 1919 Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 7: 321 Kraenzlin 1919 as Dikylikostigma preussii Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 37(2): 394 Schlechetrr 1920 as Cyclopogon rotundifolius Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Spiranthes scopulariae; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 as Spiranthes scopulariae; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 quinta parte Foldats 1970 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilensis Band 1 Pabst & Dung 1975 drawing fide; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 6 321 - 384 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1975; Fragm. Florist. Geobot. 37: 440 Szlach 1992 as Discyphus scopulariae var. longiauriculata Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 genus only Appendix 1; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 3 Orchidoideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rassmusen 2003 drawing good; Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia: 179 Szlachetko & Kolanowska 2019 drawing fide
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