Dichaea lankesteri Ames 1923 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Common Name Lancaster's Dichaea [American Botanist in Costa Rica 1900's]

Flower Size 1/4" [8 mm]

Found only in Costa Rica and Panama in moist cloud forests on shady tree trunks at elevations around 1450 meters as a small sized, warm growing epiphyte with caespitose, densely leafy throughout, complantate stems carrying spreading, wider below the middle, decurved, distichous, linear, gradually narrowing towarsds the acute apex, attenuate to the leaf sheath below leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short, slender, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dichaea amparoana Schltr.1923 often cited as a syn but I have left them separate accoring to Pupulin

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orchid. 4: 56. 1923; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Pupulin 2005; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo;

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