Scaphosepalum macrodactylum (Rchb.f.) Rolfe 1890 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by Ecuagenera/Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name The Big Fingered Scaphosepalum [refers to the thickened tail of the middle sepal]
Flower Size .1" [5 mm]
Found in Colombia without locational of elevational data as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte meters with erect, slender, ramicauls and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below intothe slendre petiolate base leaf that blooms on a slnder, smooth, loose, non-flexuous, 3.2" [8 cm] long, successively several to many flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with a slender floral bract and to 2 flowers open at an one time.
"Closely allied to Scaphosepalum breve but it has verrucose peduncles and sepaline tails at leasat as long as the blades. Also similar to the Central American Scaphosepalum anchoriferum but it has much larger sepaline cushions that usually extend beyond the blades and acute, shortly acuminate petals." Luer 1988
Synonyms *Masdevallia macrodactyla Rchb.f. 1872
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orhcids Vol 6 COS 1998 Photo not - S triaratum?; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide
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