Dichaea brachypoda Rchb.f. 1866 SECTION Dichaeopsis Drawing by © Lisa Megahee and Epidendra Orchid Page

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Common Name The Short Cloumn Foot Dichaea

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela and northern Brazil in very wet montane rainforests at elevations around 450 to 1100 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a monopodial, semi-pendent, foliaceous stem carrying the conduplicate bases of the disitichously arranged, imbricating , strap-shaped, acute, thin leaves that are deciduous to the sheathing bases in the basal half that bloom in the summer through fall on a short to .8" [2 cm] long, slender, axillary, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Epithecia brachypoda (Rchb.f.) Schltr. 1915; Dichaeopsis brachypoda (Rchb.f.) Schltr.1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 not = D camaridioides; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing not = D camaridioides; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = D camaridioides; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 650 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 434 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;

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