Scaphyglottis laevilabium Ames 1921 Drawing by © Fritz Hamer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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 S 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 ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 1266 Hamer 1985 drawing fide;

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