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Scuticaria
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Scuticaria

Scuticaria is a genus of orchids comprising 9 species native to Belize, Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela. Members of this genus have showy flowers and long cylindrical leaves. They are epiphytic, occasionally lithophytic or terrestrial, that grow pending and are cespitously, or reptant and ascending, which exist is three isolated areas of South America, in Ecuador, Amazon Forest and Serra do Mar and Serra da Mantiqueira mountains, in Brazil, both in shady

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Scuticaria steelei

speciesScuticaria steelei

Scuticaria irwiniana

speciesScuticaria irwiniana

Scuticaria hadwenii

speciesScuticaria hadwenii

Scuticaria strictifolia

speciesScuticaria strictifolia

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 577036.