Scaphyglottis geminata Dressler & Mora-Ret. 1993
Photo by © Mora/Dressler and the Lankester's Epidendra Website CR
TYPE Drawing by © Dressler & Mora-Ret. 1993
LATE
Common Name The Twin Scaphyglottis [refers to the 2 simultaneous single flowered inflorescence]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in Cartago province of Costa Rica in somewhat disturbed forests on trunks and lower branches of trees at elevations around 1000 to 1500 meters as a small sized, erect to pendant, warm growing epiphyte with basally slender, never superposed, ellipsoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally in youth by several, close, distichous sheaths and carrying 2, apical, ovate-lanceolate, basally conduplicate, coriaceous, acute, but minutely emarginate leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall on 1 to 3, to 1.2" [3 cm] long, terminal, short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence densely covered by dry bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
* Orquídea (Mexico City) 13(1-2): 192. Dressler & Mora-Ret. 1993 drawing/photo fide;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide
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