Scaphyglottis graminifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl. 1836

Photo by Patricia Harding

Another Color Form

Photo by Donna Nash

Drawing

Drawing by Fritz Hamer

Part shadeWarm Cool MOSTLY Spring

Common Name The Grass-Like Leafed Scaphyglottis

Flower Size less than .12" [3mm or less]

Found from Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in wet montane and lower cloud forests at elevations of 850 to 1600 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with fusiform-cylindric stem segments that appear apically one atop another and have 1 to 2 basal sheaths with 2 linear-oblong, acute leaves that blooms mostly in the spring. on a fasciculate, subsessile inflorescence occuring at the apex of each successive pseudobulb and holding the flowers against the leaf base.

"Distinguished by the flowers bourne in fasciles at the nodes of the stems and the obovate-cuneate lip, more or less three lobed above the middle with crenulate margins." Hamer 1984

Synonyms *Fernandezia graminifolia Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Ornithidium flaccidum Kraenzl. 1928; Ponera graminifolia (Ruiz & Pav.) Rchb. f. 1854; Ponera rosea (Hook.) Rchb.f. 1854; Scaphyglottis antonii Schltr. 1921; Scaphyglottis boliviana Schlechter 1922; Scaphyglottis flaccida (Kraenzl.) Garay 1956; Scaphyglottis loretoensis Schltr. 1921; Scaphyglottis michelangeliorum Carnevali & Steyermark 1984; Scaphyglottis rosea Hook. 1841;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Syst. Veg. Fl. Peruv. Chil.: 241 Ruiz & Pavon 1798 as Fernandezia graminifolia

Intr. Nat. Syst. Bot., ed. 2: 446 Lindley 1836 as Cladobium violaceum;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 22: t. 1901 Lindley 1836 as S violacea;

Edwards's Bot. Reg. 22: t. 1901 Lindley 1836 as S violacea drawing fide

*Nov. Gen. Sp. Pl. 1: 59 Poepp & Endl. 1836;

Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 313 Hook. 1841 as S rosea;

Hooker's Icon. Pl. 4: t. 313 Hook. 1841 as S rosea drawing fide;

Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 22 Rchb.f 1854 as Ponera graminifolia nom. illeg.;

Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 22 Rchb.f 1854 as Ponera rosea;

Bonplandia (Hannover) 2: 22 Rchb.f 1854 as Ponera violacea;

Die Orchideen 187 Schlechter 1915 as Ponera graminifolia;

Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as S antonii;

Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as S loretorensis;

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 10: 44 Schlechter 1922 as S boliviana;

Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as Scaphyglottis violacea drawing not = S behrii;

Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 drawing ok;

Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as S violacea not = S behrii;

Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979 as Ponera graminifolia;

Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1137 Hamer 1984 as Ponera subquadrilabia drawing not;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1153 Dodson 1984 drawing hmm;

Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0169 Dodson & Bennett 1989 as S violacea;

Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;

Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 178 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing hmm;

Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not = S behrii;

Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm;

Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;

Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 as S flaccida drawing hmm;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 as S boliviana;

Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 PHOTO OK;

Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;

AOS Bulletin Vol 79 #11 2010 photo fide;

Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo not;

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