Scaphosepalum delhierroi Luer & Hirtz 1991 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning Juan del Hierro's Scaphosepalum [Ecuadorian co-discoverer of species current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in the Bolivar province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute to acute, cuneatebelow into the slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an horizontal to descending, slender, smooth, 2 to 2.8" [5 to 7 cm] long, loose, flexuous, successively single, several flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.

"Distinguished by the petiolate leaves and a weak, successively flowered raceme of pretty, colorful flowers. The tailess middle sepal is purple, the lateral sepals ae yellow with purple spots and greenish white tails, the cushions are orange, the distinctive, retuse petals are pink and the lip with a deflexed apical lobe is red." Luer 1991

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum VIII Systematics of Lepanthopsis, Octomeria subgenus Pleurothallopsis, Restrepiella, Salpistele and Teagueia Luer 1991 drawing fide;

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