Scaphyglottis clavata Dressler 2004
TYPE Drawing and comparison to S pulchella
TYPE Photo by Robert Dressler © TYPE Drawing by Stig Dalstrom
Photos by © Bogarin
Common Name The Club-Shaped Scaphyglottis [refers to the clavate pseudobulbs]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Chiriqui province of Panama at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epipihyte with several levels of superposed club-shaped pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by lightly striated, acute sheaths and carrying 2 apical, elliptic-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, minutely tridentate leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, short, successively 1 to 2 flowered inflroescence arising from bract clusters.
Similar to S pulchella but differs in the smaller flowers,smaller tepals and a much narrower lip with a narrower oval, basal depression with very low ridge margin.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
* J. Orchideenfreund. 11(4): 311. 2004 photo/drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide
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