Scaphosepalum cloesii Luer 1998 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988

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Another Flower angle

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TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer

Common Name Cloe's Scaphosepalum [Belgian original co-collector of species]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador without collection data as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a slender, suberect, distichous, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with acute, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Closely allied to Scaphosepalum dalstroemii but is distinguished b ythe smaller habit with smaller flowers, tails of the synsepal much shorter,and a lip with a narrowly oblong hypochile and epichile. Both species share petals withan undulate margin and a long, thick, densely pubescent column foot." Luer 1998

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothillidinarum Vol 17 Systematics of Pleurothallis Section Abortivae, Truncatae, Subsection Acroniae, Subgenera Dracontia and Uncifera pg 114 Luer 1998 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2003 drawing fide;

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