Scaphosepalum andreettae Luer 1985 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name Andreetta's Scaphosepalum [Padre in Ecuador who codiscovered species]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 1400 meters as a mini-miniature, caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths with a single, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subactue to obtuse leaf that is cuneate below to the slender petiole that blooms in the spring on an erect, 2.8" [7cm] long, loosely succeessively flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin tubular floral bracts, holding the flowers just above the leaves.
This species is distinguished from others by it's small plant habit, little flowers with a tailless middle sepal, little oval, hairy cushions within the underside of the lateral sepals which do not fill the entire space, leaving a distinct open margin all around and petals with transverse obtuse apices.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Phytologia 57: 64 Luer 1985; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995 photo; fide Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol76 #2 2012 photo fide;
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