Scaphosepalum pleurothallodes Luer & Hirtz 1992 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Another Flower???? Photo courtesy of Lourens Grobler ©
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Common Name or Meaning The Pleurothallis-Like Scaphosepalum
Flower Size .4" [5 mm]
Found in Napo province of Ecuador at elevations around 650 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, slender ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute to acute, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a suberect, slender, smooth, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, loose, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.
Superficially similar to a yellow, marked with purple flowered Pleurothallis but is distinguished by the oblong, obtuse, tailess dorsal sepal, the spathulate, minutely apically toothed and the thick, ovoid, minutely spiculate lip.
Karremans & Viera 2020 state that this species is a natural hybrid between Scaphosepalum and A Pleurothallis.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol IX Systematics of Myoxanthus Luer 1992 drawing fide; Pleurothallids Neotropical Jewels Vol 1 Karremans & Viera 2020 photo fide
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