Scaphosepalum decorum Luer & R.Escobar

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Orchid Species: Scaphosepalum decorum

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Scaphosepalum decorum is an orchid species identified by Luer & R.Escobar in 1982.

Genus

Scaphosepalum (Sppm.)

Grex

decorum
(name currently accepted by Kew)

Parents

Species

Author

Luer & R.Escobar

Year

1982

ORIGIN: Found in Cauca, southern Colombia as a small sized, caespitose, cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 1800 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found in Cauca, southern Colombia as a small sized, caespitose, cool growing epiphyte at elevations around 1800 meters with an erect, slender ramicaul with 1 to 2 basal tubular sheaths and a larger one above carrying a single, apical, erect, thinly coriaceous, long-petiolate, elliptical, acute leaf that is cuneate below to the conduplicate petiole that blooms from high on the ramicaul in the fall on an erect, racemose, subcongested, distichous, successively many flowered, to 16 [to 40 cm] long inflorescence with several conspicuos, oblong triangular, oblique, conduplicate floral bracts with large flowers held at mid-leaf.

FLOWER SIZE: 2 1/2 incheses -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

Most awarded/recent cultivars: Sppm. decorum 'Venturina' (2008) Sppm. decorum 'Hilda Blum' (2007) Sppm. decorum 'Hoosier' (1995)

https://www.orchids.org/grexes/scaphosepalum-decorum

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