Scelochilus sillarensis Dodson & R.Vásquez 1989
Photos by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by Dodson & Vasquez
LATE
EARLY
Common Name The El Sillar Scelochilus [A town in Bolivia]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Cochabamba Bolivia in wet montane cloud forest at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with small, elongate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricate, distichous, fleshy, nonfoliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, acute, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, pendulous, racemose, basal, peduncle slender, to 4.4" [11 cm] long, single ?flowered inflorescence with triangular floral bracts and carrying yellowish-white flowers.
Synonyms Comparettia sillarensis (Dodson & R.Vásquez) M.W.Chase & N.H.Williams 2008
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI *Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 372 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 31 1905 - 1976 Brieger 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2008 as Comparettia sillarensis; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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