Dichaea muricatoides Hamer & Garay 1974 SECTION Dichaea

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage

full shadeCoolWinter

Common Name The Muricata-like Dichaea

Flower Size 1.2" [2 cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 1850 meters as a small sized, cool and pendant growing epiphyte with compressed stems completely enveloped by leaf bearing sheaths each carrying a ditichous, alternate, slightly twisted, elliptic, acute to rounded leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence with a muricate pedicel.

Synonyms Dichaea liebmannii Rchb.f. 1879; *Dichaea tuerckheimii Kraenzl. 1923 nom illeg.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo hmm; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 655 Hamer 1982 drawing fide; Icones Orchidaceraum I plate 13 Hagsater & Salazar 1990 drawing ok

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