Scaphyglottis fasciculata Hook. 1841
Photo by © Gary Yong Gee and his Orchid Photo Website
TYPE Drawing by © J D Hooker
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Common Name The Fasciculate Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .16" [.4 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 1100 to 1250 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with spreading, fasciculate branched orchid with somewhat thickened, vernicose stems enveloped basally by a few dry sheaths carrying 2, apical, obliquely patent, linear, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal or at the nodes on stem, arising on a mature stem, short, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Pachystele minuta (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Hamer & Garay 1984; *Polystachya minuta A. Rich. & Galeotti; Scaphyglottis cogniauxiana De Wild. 1905; Scaphyglottis minuta [A Rich. & Galeotti] Garay 1973
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 317 Hooker 1841
* Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 317 Hooker 1841 Drawing fide
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 27 A Rich & Galleotti 1845 as Polystacha minuta;
Gard. Chron., ser. 3, 37: 33 De Wild. 1905 as S cogniauxiana;
Die Orchideen #8 29-32 tafel 8 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 as Hexidesmia fasciculata drawing/photo fide;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 23: 299 Garay 1973 as S minuta;
Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as S minuta drawing/photo fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 775 Hamer 1982 as Hexadesmia fasciculata drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1069 Hamer 1984 as Pachystele minuta drawing fide;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Hexadesmia fasciculata drawing fide;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Pachystelis [sic] minuta;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2012 photo fide;
Guia de Orquideas de Chiapas Carlos Rommel Beutelspacher Baigts 2013 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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