Scaphyglottis condorana Dodson 1998

Photo by © Alexander Hirtz

TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Website

Common Name The Cordillera del Condor Scaphyglottis [Mountain range of southeastern Ecuador]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations of 1300 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with superposed stems terminating in 2, su-opposite, erect spreading, oblong, obtuse, minutely bilobulate apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a terminal, short, racemose, succcessively single flowered inflorescence arising through congested spathe.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

*Orquideología 21(1): 7 Dodson 1998 drawing fide;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol V Dodson 2004 photo/drawing fide;

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