Dichaea oxyglossa Schltr. 1923 SECTION Dichaea Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Full Shade WarmCool

Common NameThe Sharp Tongued Dichaea

Flower Size

Found only in Costa Rica and Panama in moist forests on shady tree trunks at elevations around 1000 to 2000 meters as a medium sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant stem enveloped completely by imbricate leaf bearing sheaths and each carrying ditichous, narrowly oblong, apicaulte recurved leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, .4 to .5" [1 to 1.3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

SynonymsDichaea acostae Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 264. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D acostae; *Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 267. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 306. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D acostae; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dresssler 1993

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