Scelochilus chiribogae Dodson 1980 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

EARLY

Common Name The Chiriboga Scelochilus [An area in north central Ecuador]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 2300 meters as a small sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte with oblong-cylindric pseudobulb enveloped basally by several imbricating, distichous, sheaths with the uppermost being deciduously leafbearing, and carrying a single, apical, erect, obovate, acute, tapering below into a conduplicate base leaf and blooms in the spring and early summer on an axillary, [to 12" [30 cm] long, several [7 to 10] flowered inflorescencem arising from both immature and mature growths and can branch later from the nodes in the basl portion and has several remote, clasping bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 288 Dodson 1980

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