Scaphyglottis amparoana (Schltr.) Dressler 1964
Photos by © Bogarin
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
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Common Name Amparo's Scaphyglottis [Costa Rican orchid enthusiast 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 900 to 1750 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with cylindrical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 3, obtuse sheaths and carrying 2, apical, linear-ligulate, obtuse leaves that blooms in the fall through spring on a terminal, suberect, 1.6" [4 cm] long, few flowered inflorescence '
Synonyms *Costaricaea amparoana Schltr 1923; Hexisea amparoana (Schltr.) Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 31. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Costaricaea amparoana;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 3: 40 Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934 as Hexisea amparoana;
*Taxon 13: 246 Dressler 1964;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Costaricaea amparoana;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Hexisea amparoana drawing fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
