Dichaea kegeli Rchb.f 1877 SECTION DichaeaandSECTION Dichaeopsis Photo courtesy of © Orchid Species Preservation Foundation

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Common Name Kegel's Dichaea [German Orchid Gardener and head of Halle Botanical garden 1800's]

This small sized, pendant growing, epiphytic species is found in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru in rain forests at elevations of 100 to 1300 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pendant stem carrying distichous, imbricate, delicate, articulate to the leaf shesths below, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, finely pilose for the margins of the leaves that blooms in the late summer and fall with an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence that holds the flowers within the leaves.

Synonyms Epithecia kegelii (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 not = D splitbergii; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = D splitgerberi; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Peru Plate 0046 Dodson & Bennett 1989 drawing hmmish; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 438 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 photo ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing not = D splitbergii ; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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