Scaphyglottis prolifera Cogn. 1898
Photo by © Bogarin/Pupulin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Photos by Patricia Harding
Photo by Dave Alford
Drawing by Dunsterville
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Common Name The Prolific Scaphyglottis
Flower Size 3/16" to 1/2" [1 to 1.2 cm]
Found from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Trinidad and the Windward Islands as a medium sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose epiphyte in hot low rainforests at elevations of 40 to 2000 meters with segmented, cylindric pseudobulbs with segments that become smaller apically and can sometimes branch to two, subtended by basal sheaths with two apical, subcoriaceous, lanceolate leaves that are conduplicate at the base blooming on a terminal, fasciculate, short, 1 or 2 flowered inflorescence that holds the successive flower against the leaf base and occurs in the fall and early winter.
Similar to S laevilabia but S prolifera has an ecallous disc of the lip and has 2 small stelidiar arms on the column about opposite the stigmatic cavity.
Synonyms Isochilus proliferum sensu Lindley 1824 non [Sw.]R. Br.; Ponera mapiriensis Kraenzl. 1928; Scaphyglottis cuneata Schltr. 1918; Scaphyglottis gracilis [Schlechter] Schlechter 1923; Scaphyglottis wercklei Schltr. 1923; Tetragamestus gracilis Schltr. 1918;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR;
Hortus Kew. 5: 209 R Br. 1813 as Isochilus prolifera;
* Fl. Bras. 3(5): 15 Cogniaux 1898
Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909;
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 398 Schlechter 1918 as S cuneata
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 400 Schlechter 1918 as Tetragamestus gracilis;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 28 Schlechter 1923 as S gracilis;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 19: 28. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S werckleri;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 25: 22 Kraenzlin 1928 as Ponera mapiriense;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 as S cuneata;
Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as S cuneata;
AOS Bulletin Vol 32 No 3 1963 photo as S cuneata;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 as S cuneata not = S leucantha;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 as S cuneata drawing ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 drawing/photo ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as S cuneata photo ok;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as S gracilis drawing fide;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide;
Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 286 Dodson 1980 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1157 Dodson 1984 drawing fide;
The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo maybe;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0292 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1391 Atwood 1989 as S gracilis drawing ok;
Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide;
The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1583 Atwood 1993 drawing fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 180 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 as S cuneata photo fide;
Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 180 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide;
Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 3 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing ok/photo soso;
Orchids of Bolivia Vol 2 Laelinae Vasquez and Ibisch 2004 drawing/photo good;
Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide;
Orchid Species Of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 photo fide;
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as S cuneata var major;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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