Dichaea eligulata Folsom 1994 SECTION Dichaea Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Another Flower? Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name The No Ligule Dichaea

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in wet montane cloud forests as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant growth habit and 1 to several stems enveloped completely by close, strongly reflexed, twisted, lanceoalte-elliptic, cuneate-rounded base leaves that blooms in the late spring on an axillary, 1/4 to 3/5" [6 to 15 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence.

I am definitely not sure of the ID here on the second photo as this flower appears to have a ligule on the column and the leaf structure seems wrong, although I do not have a good reference source other than a photo in Pupulins 2005 Native Costa Rican Orchids and it is very different. Anyone?

CAUTION I have two different varieties that match two different references so I cannot be sure of which one is the real D eligulata so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photo fide to the first photo; Las Orquideas del Peru Izerskyy & Bezverhov 2011 photo fide to the second photo

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