Scaphosepalum manningii Luer 1998 SECTION Distichium Luer 1988
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Manning's Scaphosepalum [English Co-collector of species 20th cen]
Flower Size3/8" [1 cm]
Found in Aragua state of Venezuela at elevations of 1700 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 loose, tubular sheaths with a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, petiolate, narrowly-elliptical, subacute leaf that is gradually narrowed below to the slender petiole that blooms in the summer on a distichous, flexible, subflexuous, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and holding the single flowers well away from the plant.
"Similar to Scaphosepalum clavellatum but distinguished by the well developed cushions of the lateral sepals and a long-pedicellate raceme that reaches 10" [25 cm] long. Both havet the long, erect, dorsal sepal that is thickened and semiterete above the middle." Luer 1998
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVI Systematics of Pleurothallis subgenera Crocodeilanthe, Rhynchopera and Talpinaria Luer 1998 drawing fide, Lankesteriana Vol 4 #2 105-108 2004 drawing fide;
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