Scaphosepalum odontochilum Kraenzl. 1925 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo courtesy of © Milan Vágner.
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Toothed-Lip Scaphosepalum [refers to the toothed edges of the labellum]
Flower Size 1.4 to .2" [3 to 5 mm]
Found in Risaralda, Chco and Cauca departments of Colombia at elevations of 1750 to 2400 as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf narrowly cuneate below into the long, conduplicate petiole that blooms in the fall, winter and spring on a erect to descending, subcongested, distichous, successively several flowered, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose inflorecense arising from low on the ramicaul and with narrowly triangular, oblique, conduplicate, as long to just shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"Although the peduncle ususally stands erect, occasionally they can be horizontal to descending. The color of the sepals, connate into a sepaline tube, varies from yellow green to brown to red and the tails of the lateral sepals are reduced to minute apicula. The lip is ovate with dentate margins and lamellae." Luer 1988
Synonyms Scaphosepalum sneidernii Garay 1953
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 only drawing on pg 78 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing on pg 79 = S globosum; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 1 2007 photo not = S swertiifolium ; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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