Dichaea neglecta Schltr. 1918

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

Common Name The Neglected Dichaea

Flower Size 1/4" [.8cm]

Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, densely caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with a branching, compressed stem completely enveloppd by leaf bearing, green spotted sheaths and each carrying distichous, alternate, ovate, acute, articuated to the clasping sheaths that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Dichaea muricata var. neglecta (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 656 Hamer 1982 drawing ok;

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