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Common Name The Painted Dichaea

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found from the Leewards, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in rainforests as a small sized, pendant, hot growing epiphyte that is found at elevations of 0 to 1000 meters with unbranched to branching basally stems carrying close set, olive green, oblong lanceolate leaves held at a 90' angle to the stem by a clasping sheath and blooms in the winter through summer on an axillary, short single flowered inflorescence that appears at the upper leaf axils near the apex of the stem.

Synonyms Dichaea hookeri Garay & H.R.Sweet 1972; Epithecia picta (Rchb. f.) Schltr. 1915

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 drawing hmm; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 as D rendlei drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing ok; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 as D hookeri drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as D hookeri drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 as D hookeri; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo hmm; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 PHOTO hmm; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 4 COS 1994 photo hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as D hookeri drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as D hookeriphoto fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as D hookeri; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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