Dichaea laxa (Ruiz & Pav.) Poepp. & Endl. 1836 SECTION Dichaea Photo by Copyright © Ecuagenera and their Ecuadorian Orchid Website

Full shade HotWarmSummerFall

Common Name The Lax Dichaea

Flower Size

Found in Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 230 to 1250 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with elongate, pendulous branching towards the apice stems carrying leathery , distichous, non-deciduous , reflexed, oblong, acute, apiculate, minutely fimbriate to denticulate margined leaves tyhat blooms in the summer and fall on an axilalry, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Epithecia laxa (Ruiz & Pav.) Schltr. 1915; *Fernandezia laxa Ruiz & Pav. 1798

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 439 Dodson 1989 drawing hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 Drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok;

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