dimanche 8 août 2010

Scaphosepalum breve

Full shade, cool to hot temperature, flower in summer to early winter
Found from the Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and also in Bolivia in cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 2200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with erect, slender ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 tubular sheaths carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, acute leaf that gradually narrows to the slender, channeled petiole that blooms in the summer fall and early winter on a loose, sharply flexuous, verrucose, slender, successively several to many flowered, 2" to 10" [5 to 25 cm] long, racemose inflorescence with conduplicatet floral bracts.