Scaphyglottis arctata (Dressler) B.R.Adams 1988
TYPE Photo/drawing by © Dressler and The AMO Herbaria Website
EARLY 
Common Name The Pressed Together Scaphyglottis [Refers to the pressed folds of the lip over the nectary which prevent pollination by small insects and thereby only possible by the probing of a hummingbirds beak]
Flower Size .88" [2.2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1000 to 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with slender, clustered stems enveloped by evanescent sheaths and carrying usually 2, sub-terminal, oblong-elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, obtuse to unequally retuse leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, short, several flowered inflorescence with several, cymbiform, straw colored bracts.
Synonyms *Hexisea arctata Dressler 1979
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7: 223 Dressler 1979 as Hexisea arctata photo/drawing fide;
*Phytologia 64: 257 B R Adams 1988;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
