Scaphyglottis tenuis L.O. Williams 1941
Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders.
TYPE Drawing by L O Williams .
Common Name The Delicate Scaphyglottis
Flower Size .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm]
Found in Nayarit, Jalisco and Michoacan states of Mexico as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte at elevations of 1100 to 1800 meters in open forest and woodlands on oak trees with elliptic to fusiform, stipitate pseudobulbs enveloped by scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, obtuse, grass-like leaf that blooms in the spring on a terminal or at the nodes on stem, racemose several flowered inflorescence.
Similar to Scaphyglottis livida but easily distinguished by the smaller flowers with a differently shaped lip, single nerved sepalas and petals and the long slender raceme
Synonyms Scaphyglottis oblonga L.O.Williams 1941; Sessilibulbum oblonga (L.O. Williams) Brieger 1976; Sessilibulbum tenuis (L.O. Williams) Brieger 1976
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ;
* AOS Bulletin 10: 77 1941 drawing fide
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Sessilibulbum oblonga;
Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 8 449 - 512 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1976 as Sessilibulbum tenuis; ;
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