Scaphosepalum digitale Luer & Hirtz 1991 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © French Orchid Society Northern Section Website
Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Finger Scaphosepalum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Bolivar province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1250 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic, subacute to acute, cuneate below into the slender, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a loose to subdense, flexuous, successively several flowered, to 3.6" [to 9 cm] long, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.
"Distinguished by the petiolate leaves and a more or less erect, successively flowered raceme of pretty, colorlul flowers. The sepals are transluscent with red stripes and greenish white tails, the cushions are orange with rose dots, the many angled, apiculate petals are yellow amd the lip has a rose-red deflexed, fingerlike, apical lobe
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; Native Ecuadorian Orchids VOl 5 Dodson 2004 photo wrong may be S dodsonii i'm right
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