Scaphyglottis gentryi Dodson & Monsalve 1998
Photo by Kerry Dressler
TYPE Drawing by Calaway Dodson
Common Name Gentry's Scaphyglottis [Dr Alwin Gentry American Botanist 1945 - 1993]
Flower Size .32" [8 mm]
Found in Colombia and northwestern Ecuador in low tropical primary forests at elevations of sea level to 250 meters as a medium to large sized, hot growing epiphyte with an erect to arcuate, cane like, composed of several superposed, slightly swllen, sulcate stems carrying a single to occasionally 2, apical, linear-oblong, obtuse apically, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on a short, .4" [1 cm] long, terminal, successively 1 to 2, few flowered inflorescence arising from the scarious, imbricating sheaths and carrying white flowers with a flush of yellow on the inner portion of the lip.
Similar to S imbricata but S gentryi is without the cup shaped base of the lip and carrying white flowers.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia Vol 21 #1 1998 Dodson & Montsalve Drawing fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide
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