Scaphosepalum bicristatum Luer 2002 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Eric Hunt
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name The Two Calli Scaphosepalum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, caespitose epiphyte with proportionally stout, erect, ramicauls enveloped by a tubular sheath and another at the base and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, slender, smooth, loose, distichous, flexuous, flexible, 10.8 to 11.2" [27 to 28 cm] long including the 6" [15 cm] long rachis, succcessively single, many flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Characterized by the small habit with spathulate leaves and a progressively lengthening, lax, flexuous, successively flowering raceme. The much longer peduncle is smooth but the rachis is microscopically subverrucose. The median sepal is ovate and concave with a thick apex. The synsepal is deeply concave and boat-shaped with tails only .04" [1 mm] long. The lateral margins and apices of the cushions are ill defined. The petals are dilated on the labellar margin, the apex is apiculate and the base is unguiculate. The lip is arcuate with the sides thin and dilated, the apex is round and minutely serrulate and the disc has a pair of tall fringed lamellae." Luer 2002
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXIV A First Century of New Species of Stelis of Ecuador Part 1 Luer 2002 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #8 2010 photo fide;
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