Anacheilium sceptrum [Lindl.]Hagaster 1990
Photo by © Adam Karremans
Photo by Lourens Grobler
Photo by Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Sceptre-Like Anacheilium [refers to the inflorescence]
Flower Size 1.2" and slightly more [3 cm]
Found in Venezuela, Antioquia, Norte de Santander, Boyaca, Cundinamarca, Cauca and Putumayo departments of Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 150 to 2000 meters This epiphytic and occasional lithophytic species with thin, compressed psuedobulbs occurs as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with slender, cyclindrical, compressed psuedobulbs enveloped basally by several scarious tubular sheaths and carrying 2 to 3 apical, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, erect or arching, to 2' [60 cm] long, many flowered, cylindrical shaped inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with scented, non-resupinate flowers held well above the leaves.
Similar to Anacheilium baculus but differs in the very long inflorescence to 24" [60 cm] long, that is subdensely many flowered. A baculus has a much shorter inflorescence to 3.6" [9 cm] long, and only has 2, occasionally 1 flowered inflorescence."
Synonyms Encyclia sceptra (Lindl.) Carnevali & I. Ramírez 1986; *Epidendrum sceptrum Lindl. 1846; Epidendrum sphenoglossum F. Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899; Prosthechea sceptra (Lindl.) W. E. Higgins 1997
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orchid. Linden.: 8 Lindley 1846 as Epidendrum sceptrum;
Bonplandia 2:281 Rchb.f 1854 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 460 F.Lehm. & Kraenzl. 1899 as Epidendrum sphenoglossum; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 6: 72 Schlechter 1919 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 251 Schlechter 1920 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Epidendrum sceptrum drawing ok; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 Epidendrum sceptrum drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as Epidendrum sceptrum drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as Epidendrum sceptrum drawing fide; Ernstia 36: 9 Carnevali & I.Ramírez 1986 as Encyclia sceptra; *Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Manual Of Orchids Stewart 1995 as Epidendrum sceptrum; Phytologia 82: 380 W E Higgins 1997 publ. 1998 as Prosthechea sceptra; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as Prosthechea sceptra drawing good; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as Prosthechea sceptra photo fide; The Cattleyas and Their Relatives, the Debateable Epidendrum Withner and Harding 2004 photo/drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 9 2008 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #1 2010 as Prosthechea sceptrum photo ok;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:413 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing/photo fide;
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