Scaphyglottis spathulata C.Schweinf. 1941
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Photo by © Stefan Neuwurth and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website
Drawing by © Sylvio Troyo
Common Name The Spoon-Like Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in pluvial forests at elevations of 800 to 1200 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with superposed, thick-fusiform apically stems carrying 2, elliptic-ovate, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, racemose, peduncle to .24" [6 mm] long, 1 to few flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Hexadesmia jimenezii Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 293 Schlechter 1923 as Hexadesmia jimenezii
* Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 28 C Schweinfurth 1941;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 #3 1963 photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide
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