Scaphyglottis obtusisepala Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

TYPE Drawing by © S Nowak

EARLIER

Common Name The Obtuse Sepal Scaphyglottis

Flower Size .64" [1.6 cm]

Found in Caqueta department of Colombia on the eastern slopes of Eastern Cordillera in in humid to wet forest at elevations around 720 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with a creeping rhizome giving rise to narrowly cylindrical or stipitate, erect, fusiform pseudobulbs carrying 2 apical, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the earlier fall on a to .6" [4 mm] long, laxly 3 to 4 flowered inflorescence with shorter than the pedicel floral bracts

"Species somewhat similar to Scaphyglottis stellata but the lip callus is very broad, spread between the lip lateral lobes, sepals and petals obtuse, the petals widest at apex, sepals ligulate-elliptic. Also similar to S. modesta from which it differs by having bifoliate pseudobulbs and different lip callus." Szlach. & Kolan. 2014

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Polish Bot. J. 59[1]: 2 Szlach. & Kolan 2014 drawing fide;

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