Scaphyglottis atwoodii Dressler 1997

Drawing by © Dressler and The Epidendra Website

Common Name Atwood's Scaphyglottis [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size .24" [6 mm]

Found in Costa Rica at elevations around 50 to 150 meters as a mini-miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte with slender, superposed stems with cauducous, reduced leaf sheaths and carrying oblong to elliptic-oblong leaves that blooms in the fall on a solitary flowered to fasciled inflorescence with oblong, brown, conduplicate floral bracts.

Similar to Scaphyglottis bidentata but is easily separated by the abruptly bent base of the lip which with the column foot appears to form a nectary, the flabellate midlobe of the lip with a papillose surface and erecose-denticulate distal margin and the spoon-like column apex bent at the wings.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Novon 7(2): 124, f. 4. Dressler 1997;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

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