Scaphyglottis livida (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918
Photos by © Eric Hunt
Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor
Drawing by Reichenbach
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Common Name The Bluish Scaphyglottis
Flower Size 3/8" [8mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil as a small to medium sized epiphyte occurring at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters. Vera Cruz Mx., 2019m elev, 8 klm north of Coatepec in cofee planting, epiphytic on Liquidambar trees with densely fasciculate-branched, pseudobulbous, narrowly fusiform-cyclyndrical, stipitate stems that carry 2, apical, erect, linear, leaves with a bilobed apex that blooms in the winter and spring on an erect or pendant, fasciculate, one to several flowered inflorescence carrying the flowers held close to the apex of the pseudobulb.
Synonyms Hexadesmia monophylla Barb.Rodr. 1877; Hexadesmia reedii Rchb. f. 1878; Hexadesmia sessilis Rchb. f. 1877; Isochilus dubius A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; *Isochilus lividus Lindl. 1839; Leaoa monophylla (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. & Porto 1922; Leaoa reedii (Rchb.f.) Garay 1954; Pachystele dubia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Schltr. 1923; Pachystele livida (Lindl.) Brieger 1976; Pachystelis dubia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rauschert 1983; Pachystelis livida (Lindl.) Rauschert 1983; Ponera dubia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f. 1856; Scaphyglottis dubia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl. 1884; Scaphyglottis purpusii Schltr. 1918; Scaphyglottis reedii (Rchb. f.) Ames 1941; Scaphyglottis sessilis (Rchb. f.) Foldats 1968
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 25(Misc.): 36 Lindley 1839 as Isochilus lividus;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 23 A Rich & Galleotti 1845 as Isochilus dubius;
Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 3: 23 A Rich & Galleotti 1845 as Hexadesmia dubia;
Bonplandia 4: 327 Rchb.f 1856 as Ponera dubia;
Refugium Botanicum 2: t 113 Reichenbach 1872 as Hexadesmia reedii drawing fide;
Refugium Botanicum 2: t 113 Reichenbach 1872 as Hexadesmia sessilis;
Gen. Spec. Orchid. 1: 80 Barb Rodr 1877 as Hexadesmia monophyla;
Gard. Chron., n.s., 19: 700 Benth. & Hook.f. ex Hemsl. 1883 as S dubia
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 399. Schlechter 1918 as S purpusii;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 457 Schlechter 1918
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 3: 293 Schltr. & Porto 1922 as Leaoa monophylla
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 114 Schlechter 1923 as Pachystele dubia;
AOS Bulletin 10: 49 Ames 1941 as S reedii;
Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Leaoa monophylla drawing good;
Arch. Jard. Bot. Rio de Janeiro 13: 45 Garay 1954 as Leaoa reedii
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as Hexadesmia sessilis drawing fide;
Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Leaoa monophylla;
AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 as Hexadesmia sessilis;
Acta Bot. Venez. 3: 398 Foldats 1968 as S sessilis;
Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 3 1970 as S sessilis drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as Hexadesmia sessilis drawing fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Leaoa reedii photo fide;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8: 498 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Leaoa monophylla;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Pachystele livida;
AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979;
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 198 1979
Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 7[3]: 207 1979 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Hexadesmia sessilis drawing fide;
Feddes Repert. 94: 456 Rauschert 1983 as Pachystelis lividus;
Feddes Repert. 94: 456 Rauschert 1983 as Pachystelis dubia;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1068 Dodson 1984 as Pachystele dubia drawing ok;
Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985 as Hexadesmia sessilis;
An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo hmm;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as S sessilis drawing fide;
Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as S sessilis photo fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as S sessilis;
Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo ok;
Algunas Orquideas De Mexico Tomo 1 Suarez 2012 as S sessilis photo good;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Lankesteriana 19(3) 224 2019 as Leaoa monophyla photo fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 84 #1 2020 photo fide;
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