Scaphosepalum medinae Luer & J.J. Portilla 2000 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Andy Phillips and Andy's Orchids
Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jnay Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website
Photo by Duane McDowell
Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz ©, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Medina's Scaphosepalum [Ecuadorian Collector current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations of 500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, ovate, obtuse to rounded apically, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on a lateral, arising from low on the ramicaul, 1.6" [4 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with as long as to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Similar to Scaphosepalum pleurothallodes but differs in the papillose ovary, erose-carinate sepals and with the deeply connate lateral sepals. The cushions are not well developed but the petals and lip are very similar to S pleurothallodes." Luer 2000
Synonyms Specklinia medinae [Luer & J J Portilla] Karremans 2020
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XX Luer 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 as Specklinia medinae nom illegal photo fide
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