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Orchid Species: Hexisea imbricata

Kew currently accepted name is Scaphyglottis imbricata

Hexisea imbricata is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers in 1862. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Scaphyglottis imbricata.
Genus
Hexisea (Hxsa.)
Grex
imbricata
Parents
Species
Author
(Lindl.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Year
1862
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ORIGIN: Found from Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose, reedstem epiphytic, lithophytic and terrestrial species in lowland, wet, montane forests that comes from near sea level up to 1500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Found from Nayarit, Jalisco, Colima, Michoacan, Guerrero and Oaxaca states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Fr. Guiana, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, and Peru as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, caespitose, reedstem epiphytic, lithophytic and terrestrial species in lowland, wet, montane forests that comes from near sea level up to 1500 meters with segmental, fusiform, longitudinally rugose pseudobulbs with hairs at the segmental joints that arise out of the apex of an older one with several scarious sheaths at the base carrying 2 thin, linear-lanceolate, leaves that are conduplicate and clasping at the base that blooms on a terminal or axillary, subsessile, several flowered, racemose inflorescence arising on a mature cane with several scarious sheaths occurring from the fall till the late spring. Weyman's photo is from Jalaisco, near Pto. Vallarta.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [2 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Scaphyglottis Scgl imbricata 2002 (Lindl.) Dressler
Add+ Hexisea Hxsa oppositifolia 1862 (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Diothonea Dio oppositifolia 1850 (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi oppositifolium 1845 A.Rich. & Galeotti
Add+ Euothonaea Euothonaea oppositifolia 1852 (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f.
Add+ Diothonea Dio imbricata 1841 Lindl.
Add+ Euothonaea Euothonaea imbricata 1852 (Lindl.) Rchb.f.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Hxsa. imbricata 'Hsinying' (2012) Hxsa. imbricata 'Laura' (2001) Hxsa. imbricata 'D & M' (1995)
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