Scaphosepalum reptans Luer & Hirtz 2009 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988

TYPE Drawing © by Carl Luer and Selbyana 30:60 Luer & Escobar 2009

EARLY

Common Name The Creeping Scaphosepalum

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador without collection data as a miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early winter on an erect, high on the ramicaual, peduncle slender, ascending, verrucose, to 7.2" [18 cm] long, rachis 2" [5 cm] long, loose, flexuous, successively single, several flowered inflorescence with oblong, conduplicate, acute, slightly shorter to as long as the pedicel floral bracts.

"Except for the repent rhizome, the long-petiolate leaves, and flexuous racemes, this species resembles Scaphosepalum swertiifolium , but the flowers resemble more closely those of S. breve , being smaller with shorter tails. The synsepal has a distinct mentum above the base, and the cushions are acute and acuminate at their tips. The lip is most similar to that of S. breve." Luer 2009

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Selbyana 30: 19 Luer & Escobar 2009 Drawing fide;

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