Scaphosepalum rinkei Luer & Endara 2011 SECTION Distichium Luer 1988

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

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Common Name Rinke's Scaphosepalum [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela without locationald data as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thinly coriaceous, erect, elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing cuneate below into the long-petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an ascending to descending, from low on the ramicaul, peduncle 1.6 to 4" [4 to 10 cm] long, loose to congested in places, successively single, many flowered inflorescence with oblique, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying flowers with .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] between each with intermittent segments of 3 to 5 congested flowers.

"Similar to Scaphosepalum clavellatum and Scaphosepalum microdactylum but the inflorescence is distinguished by distanly spaced flowers and short segments iof congested flowers. The small yellow flower is gaping with an erect middle sepal and a thick, terete tail as broad as the blade. The cushions of the lateral sepals are at least half as long as the synsepal; the tails are minute. The petals are shortly acuminate, The lip is oblong and arcuate witha tall paor of lamellate calli within the broadly rounded margins." Luer 2011." Luer 2011

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Harvard Papers in Botany Vol 16 No 2: 349 Luer, Thoerle and Werner 2011 drawing fide;

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