Scuticaria irwiniana Pabst 1973
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © Dalton Holland Baptista
Plant in situ - Pico Da Carapuça, La Caraça, Minas Gerais, Brazil elevation 1955 meters
Another View Of Same in situ Plant
Photos by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Irwin's Scuticaria [American Orchid Collector in Brazil Early 1900's]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
This small to medium sized, erect, cool to cold growing lithophytic species from Minias Gerais Brazil and Guyana? at elevations around 1750 to 1955 meters with a creeping rhizome with closely spaced, erect, terete, short psuedobulbs enveloped basally by loose tubular, imbricating sheaths carrying a single, erect, terete, canaliculate, acute leaf that become rugose with age and has a lateral, erect, to 10" [to 25 cm], long, single flowered inflorescence occuring in the summer in Brazil. It differs from all other Scuticaria by it's erect growth habit on rocks and its erect inflorescence.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawings fide; Orchid Digest Vol 45 No 1 1981 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen lieferung 29 1777 - 1840 Brieger 1994; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #2 2002 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 81 #2 2012 photo fide;
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