Scaphosepalum jostii Luer 1998 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
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 Jost's Scaphosepalum[American Orchid enthusiast in Ecuador current]
Flower Size.4" [1 cm]
Found in the Tungurahua province of Ecuador in wet forests at elevations around 1950 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute, narrowly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and early winter on a ascending, arising from low on the ramicaul, slender, smooth, 3 to 4.8" [7.5 to 9.5 cm] long, congested, distichous, successively single, several to many flowered inflorescence with narrowly acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Similar in many respects to Scaphosepalum odontochilum but the new species differs in the long, narrowly triangular apices of the lateral sepals with merely a pair of indistinct convexities on the lamina. The diagnostic cushions of the lateral sepals of Scaposepalum are poorly developed in several species [ Scaphosepalum cimex, Scaphosepalum clavellatum , Scaphosepalum microdactylum and Scaphosepalum odontochilum but in none so faintly developed as in the new species." 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;
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