Scaphosepalum gibberosum (Rchb. f.) Rolfe 1890 SECTION Scaphosepalum
Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler
Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton
Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
Drawing by © Carl Luer
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Common Name The Many Hump-Like Swelling Peduncle Scaphosepalum
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations of 1600 to 2000 meters as a small to just medium in size, cool growing epiphyte with erect, stout ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 short, loose, tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, acute leaf that is gradually narrowed below to the slender channeled petiole that blooms in the fall and spring on an erect, loose, 20" [50 cm] long, flexuous, successively many flowered, racemose inflorescence with narrow, conduplicate, acute floral bracts.
"The purplish peduncle is slender and very rough, covered by a multitude of hard warts. The sepaline cushions, minutely pubescent and usually diffusely dotted with red-purple, are narrowly falcate and diverging with slender, straight, white tails. The middle sepal is attenuated into a long tail which is slightly bent between the middle and distal third and there is an obtuse angle on the inner surface between concave basal portions and the base of the tail." Luer 1988
Synonyms *Masdevallia gibberosa Rchb. f. 1876
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 as Masdevallia gibberosa drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol V Systematics of Dresslerella and Scaphosepalum Luer 1988 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 64 No 3 1995; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo hmm; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #7 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #11 2012 photo fide
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