Scuticaria peruviana D.E.Benn. & Christenson 2002 Photo courtesy of Akerne Orchids

Common Name The Peruvian Scuticaria

Flower Size

Found in Peru as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with cylindric speudobulbs carrying a single, terete, elongate, acute leaf that blooms in the spring on a basal, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Scuticaria mooreana Hort.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #4 1967 as S sp photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 66 #2 2002 drawing fide;

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