Scaphosepalum clavellatum Luer 1976 SECTION Distichium Luer 1988
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photos by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Photos by Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Nail-Like Scaphosepalum
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found from Costa Rica south to Panama and then in Ecuador only at elevations of 750 to 1300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with slender, erect, ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a singler, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that narrows gradually below into the slender petiole and blooms in the spring, summer and fall on a congested, distichous, slender, smooth, ascending to descending, 8" [20 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence with one or 2 flowers open at any one time, arising from low on the ramicaul and having, triangular, acute floral bracts.
"Prior to this report, only one species of Scaphosepalum ( S. microdactylum) from the western mountains of Chiriqui, had been reported from Panama. The non-clavate middle sepal of S. microdactylum is shorter than the lateral sepals." Luer 1976
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; * Selbyana Vol 3 32 Luer 1976 Drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1581 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide
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