Dichaea ecuadorensis Schltr. 1921 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photo by Copyright © Christina Veluwenkamp-Claassen

Full shadeWarm Cool WinterSpring summer Fall

Common Name The Ecuadorian Dichaea

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador in extremely wet cloud forests at elevations of 450 to 2400 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with branched, cane-like, semipendent stems carrying not deciduous, not close set, disitchous, slender, curved up at the apex leaves that bloom at most any time of the year on a axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 041 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo good; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good

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