Scaphyglottis bifida (Rchb.f.) C.Schweinf. 1941
Photos by © Karremans, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photo by © Walter Schug
Drawing by © Dunsterville & Garay
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Common Name The Cleft in two Parts Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Venezuela, Fr Guiana and Surinam in rain forests at elevations of 400 to 2200 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with an ascending, apical half swollen into cylindric fusiform, slightly laterally compressed, basally terete pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several evanescent sheaths and carrying 2 apical, coriaceous, elliptic, acuiminate gradually narrows below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the late summer on a very short, terminal, successively few flowered racemose inflorescence and may be with maturing fruit.
Synonyms Hexadesmia bifida Rchb. f. 1878; Hexadesmia falcata C.Schweinf. 1940; Scaphyglottis falcata (C.Schweinf.) C.Schweinf. 1941
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
Refugium Botanicum 2:t 113 Reichenbach 1872 as Hexidesmia bifida;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 8: 45 Schweinfurth 1940 as Hexisea falcata; *
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10(2): 27. 1941;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 28 Schweinfurth 1941 as S falcata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964 as Hexidesmia bifida;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as Hexidesmia bifida drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Hexedesmia bifida;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Hexadesmia bifida drawing fide;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 as S falcata photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1386 Atwood 1993 drawing good;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 562 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing good;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003
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