Scaphyglottis laevilabium Ames 1921
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Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The White Lipped Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 10 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to cool gerowing epiphyte with 3 to 4, superposed, narrowly fusiform pseduobulbs carrying 2, apical, narrow, linear leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a terminal, short, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence arising at the junction of the superposed pseudobulbs
Similar to Scaphyglottis prolifera but it has an ecallous disc of the lip and has 2 small stelidiar arms on the column about opposite the stigmatic cavity.
Synonyms Scaphyglottis dolichophylla Schltr. 1922
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 34: 154 Ames 1921;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 17: 28 Schlechter 1922 as S dolichophylla
The Orchids of Panama 389 L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946;
Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1266 Hamer 1985 drawing fide;
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