Dichaea anchoraelabia C. Schweinf. 1947 Photo courtesy of Carlos Hajek and his Peruvian Orchid Page

Common Name The Anchor-Shaped Lip Dichaea

Flower Size 1/4" [6 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in wet montane forests at elevations around 120 to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a psuedomonopodial, pendant, growth habit and stems that are leafy towards the apex, deciduous below with oblong-elliptic, obliquely obtuse, pale yellow green leaves that blooms on a subsessile, to 3/8" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence that is much shorter than the leaves and has infundibuliform floral bracts that are half the length of the ovary and occurs at most anytime of the year

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 627 Bennett & Christenson 2001