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Orchid Species: Scaphyglottis graminifolia

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Scaphyglottis graminifolia is an orchid species identified by (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl. in 1836.
Genus
Scaphyglottis (Scgl.)
Grex
graminifolia
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl.
Year
1836
ORIGIN: Found from Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela in wet montane and cloud forests at elevations of 850 to 2600 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, cool to hot growing, caespitose epiphyte with fusiform-cylindric stem segments that appear apically one atop another and have 1 to 2 basal sheaths with 2 linear-oblong, acute leaves that blooms on a fasciculate, subsessile inflorescence occurring at the apex of each successive pseudobulb and holding the flowers against the leaf base occurring mostly in the spring.

FLOWER SIZE: Less than 1/8 inch [3mm or less] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Cladobium Cladobium violaceum 1836 Lindl.
Add+ Ponera Pon rosea 1854 (Hook.) Rchb.f.
Add+ Ponera Pon violacea 1854 (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl antonii 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl boliviana 1922 Schltr.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl loretorensis 1921 Schltr.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl rosea 1841 Hook.
Add+ Fernandezia F graminifolia 1798 Ruiz & Pav.
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl violacea 1836 (Lindl.) Lindl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Scgl. violacea 'La Argentina' (2007) Scgl. graminifolia 'DeAngulo' (2005)
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