Dichaea angustisegmenta Dodson 1980 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photo courtesy of © Sean Fischer and his Flickr Photo Site

Drawing Drawing by © Lisa Megahee and Epidendra Orchid Page

LATE through MID

Common Name The Narrow Segment Dichaea [refers to the narrow floral parts]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Ecuador in wet montane rainforests at elevations around 200 to 600 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a monopodial, canelike, spreading, foliaceous stem carrying the conduplicate bases of the disitichously arranged, imbricating , linear-ligulate, acute, coriaceous leaves that are persistent to the sheathing bases and ultimately deciduous below stems that bloom in the late summer through mid fall on a short to .8" [2 cm] long, slender, axillary, single flowered inflorescence with a cucullate floral bract that envelopes the muricate ovary.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 040 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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