Scaphyglottis densa (Schltr.) B.R.Adams 1988

Photo by © Melania Munoz and The Bosque de la Paz website

Common Name The Dense Scaphyglottis

Flower Size .3" [7.5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in very wet, pluvial and cloud forests at elevations of 400 to 1600 meters as a small sized hot to cool growing epiphyte with superposed, thin, the upper most fat-fusiform stems carrying 2, apical, ligulate to elliptic-ligulate, retuse leaves that blooms in the winter, spring and summer on a terminal, short single flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION I have no way of personally verifying this determination so please use with caution!

Synonyms *Pachystele densa Schltr. 1923; Pachystelis densa (Schltr.) Rauschert 1983

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 29 Schlechter 1923 as Pachystele densa;

Feddes Repert. 94: 456 Rauschert 1983 as Pachystelis densa;

* Phytologia 64: 258 B R Adams 1988

Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide

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