Dichaea lehmannii Schltr.1920

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Part shadeWarm Cool

Common Name Lehmann's Dichaea [German council and Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size 1.7" [4.4 cm]

Found in Colombia at elevations around 1300 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, many leaved stem carrying articulate, narrowly linear, acute, falcate leaves that blooms on an axillary, short single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis, Beihefte 7: 201. Schlechter 1920; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo hmm

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