Hexisea imbricata (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1862 Photo courtesy of Robert Weyman Bussey

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Common Name Imbricate Hexisea

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found from Nayarit,Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru as a miniature sized, hot growing, caespitose, reedstem epiphytic, lithophytic and terrestrial species in lowland, wet, montane forests that comes from near sea level up to 1500 meters with segmental, fusiform, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs with hairs at the segmental joints that arise out of the apex of an older one with several scarious sheaths at the base carrying 2 thin, linear-lanceolate, leaves that are conduplicate and clasping at the base that blooms on a terminal or axillary, subsessile, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature cane with several scarious sheaths occuring from the fall till the late spring. This one is from Jalaisco, near Pto. Vallarta as well as south to northern South America.

Synonyms *Diothonaea imbricata Lindley 1840; Diothonaea oppositifolia [A.Rich& Gal.]Rchb.f 1849; Epidendrum oppistifolium A. Rich & Gal. 1845; Euothonaea imbricata [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1852; Euothonaea oppositifolia Rchb.f 1852; Hexisea bidentata var. imbricata (Lindl.) C. Schweinf. 1951; Hexisea oppositifolia Rchb.f 1862; Scaphyglottis imbricata (Lindl.) Dressler 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Sert. Orchid. t. 40, f. 1. 1841 as Diothonea imbricata; Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., III, 3: 21. 1845 as Epidendrum opposititfolium; Linnaea 22: 842. 1850 as Diothonea oppositifolia; Bot. Zeitung (Berlin) 10: 772. 1852 as Euothonea oppositifolia; Bot. Zeitung (Berlin). 10: 772. 1852 as Euothonea imbricata; W.G.Walpers, Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 470. 1862 as Hexisea oppositifolia; . Ann. Bot. Syst. 6: 470. 1862 as Hexisea imbricata; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1225 Dodson 1985; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 2 COS 1991; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1438 Atwood 1992; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 070 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Vol 5 Withner 1998; Lankesteriana: 3: 28. 2002 as Scaphyglottis imbricata; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1088 Hagsater & Soto 2008 as Scaphyglottis imbricata

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