Scaphyglottis cernua Dressler 2004
photo by © Ricardo Marin Thiele and hisFlickr Orchid Photo Website
photos by Robert Dressler /TYPE Drawing by © Stig Dalstrom
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Common Name Atwood's Scaphyglottis [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]
Flower Size .24" [6 mm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica and Bocas del Toros Panama in the Atlantic rainforest at elevations around 1000 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to several levels of superposed shoots that are enveloped in youth by lightly striate, acute, leafless sheaths, the uppermost internode thickened and carrying usually 2, elliptic-lanceoalte, acute to subacuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on a erect, short, peduncle .4 to .68" , [1 to 1.7 cm] long, arising through bract clusters, pendent successively 1, to 2 flowered inflorescence with narrowly ovate, acute floral bracts and carrying pale green, drooping flowers.
"This species is very similar to Scaphyglottis pulchella and it is easy to see why pressed specimens were not distinguished. The overall flower shape is very similar though the flowers of S cernua are a bit smaller. By being pendent and partially closed, the flowers are less attractive than S pulchella. The most striking detai s of the species are the wide, abruptly expanded apex of the somewhat shorter column. Dressler 2004
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* J. Orchideenfr. 11: 310 Dressler 2004 photos/drawing fide
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