Dichaea longa Schltr. 1922 SECTION Dichaea

Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website

Common Name The Long Dichaea [refers to the plant size]

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Bolivia in rain and cloud forests at elevations of 220 to 3100 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool, pendant growing epiphyte with branched to unbranched stems in the upper 1/2 carrying distichous, non-deciduous, reflexed, oblong, apiculate leaves that blooms at most ant time of the year on an axillary, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Dichaea latifolia var. longa (Schltr.) Folsom 1996

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 48 Dodson 1980 as D soderoi drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as D latifolia var longa; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok

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