Dichaea anchoraelabia C. Schweinf. 1947 SECTION Pseudodichaea 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 rainforests at elevations around 100 to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pseudo-monopodial, 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 in the fall and winter

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0044 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 627 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideologia Vol. 23 No 1 2004 photo; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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