Dichaea panamensis Lindl. 1833 SECTION Pseudodichaea Photo courtesy of © Stefan Paeffgen

Another Color form Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Panamanian Dichaea

Flower Size 5/8” [1.5 cm]

Found From Mexico, Guatamala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in tropical moist and wet cloud forests as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 10 to 1200 meters with erect to arched, cane-like stems carrying, distichous, deciduous, lanceolate, grey-green, deciduous on old growth leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, towards the apice, short, single flowered inflorescence. This species is distinguished from others by having deciduous leaves, a glabrous ovary and lumps on each side of the lip.

Synonyms Dichaeopsis panamensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1918; Epithecia panamensis (Lindl.) Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 90. Panama Schlechter 1922; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 5 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 045 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 657 Dodson 1982 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson & Escobar 1993 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok

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