Dichaea calyculata Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Pseudodichaea

Plant and Flowers Photos by Copyright © K Senghas and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria

Full shadeHot Warm SpringSummer

Common Name The Hooded Column Dichaea

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador and Peru in wet lowland forests at elevations of 220 to 1300 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect stem carrying articulate to the sheath, green, linear-oblong, acute to apiculate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Epithecia calyculata (Poepp. & Endl.) Schltr.1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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