Scaphyglottis tenella L.O. Williams 1941
Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Drawing by © Fritz Hamer
Common Name The Delicate Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Panama at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongated, slender stems becoming fusiform below the apex and carrying 2 apical, linear to linear-lanceolate, acute or minutely bilobulate leaves that blooms in the spring summer and fall on a terminal, fascile of 1 to a few flowered inflorscence.
Synonyms Hexadesmia tenella (L.O.Williams) A.Heller ex Hamer 1982 publ. 1983
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
* Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 28(4): 423. L O Williams 1941;
The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing ok [column wrong for photo];
AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958;
Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 777 Hamer 1982 as Hexadesmia tenella drawing ok;
Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 as Hexadesmia tenella drawing ok;
Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Hexidesmia tenella;
Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;
Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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