Scaphyglottis cuniculata (Schltr.) Dressler 2002
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez
Common Name or Meaning The Wedge-Shaped Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama at elevations of 300 to 800 meters as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with superposed, rigid stems carrying a single, subulate, acute, and blooms in the summer and winter on a capitate-faxciulate, subsessile, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Fractiunguis cuniculatus Schltr. 1923; Fractiunguis cuniculatus var. gracilis Schltr. 1923; Hexisea cuniculata (Schltr.) Ames 1925; Reichenbachanthus cuniculatus (Schltr.) Pabst 1955
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 Fractiunguis cuniculatus;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 204. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Fractiunguis cuniculatus;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 204. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Fractiunguis cuniculatus var gracilis;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 292. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Fractiunguis cuniculatus;
Schedul. Orchid. 9: 48 Ames 1925 as Hexisea cuniculata;
Rodriguésia 16-17: 138 Pabst 1955 as Reichenbachianthus cuniculatus; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Reichenbachianthus cuniculatus; Cattleyas and Their Relatives Withner Vol 3 1990 as Reichenbachianthus cuniculatus; * Lankesteriana 3: 28. Dressler 2002 ; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
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