Scaphosepalum portillae Luer 2002 SECTION Leiocaulium Luer 1988
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer
Common Name Portilla's Scaphosepalum [Ecuadorian Nurseryman Current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Pichincha province of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing, caespitose epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped by 2 tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptical, subacute, narrowly cuneate below into the slender, long-petiolate, base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, arising from low on the ramicaul, 4" [10 cm] long, loose to subdense, disitichous, 4 to 4.4" [10 to 11 cm] long, successively several flowered, racemose inflorescence withs shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the narrow, long-petiolate leaves and an equally long, suberect, successively flowered raceme. The sepals and petals are not remarkably distinctive but the lip is proportionally small with an oblong blade and a narrow, defexed, apical lobe similar to that of Scaphosepalum digitale ." Luer 2002
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXIV Luer 2002 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 5 Dodson 2004 drawing fide
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