Dichaea richii Dodson 1977 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photo by Sean Fisher and his Flickr Photo Website

Part shadeHotLATERSpring Through fall

Common Name Rich's Dichaea [American Original Collector of species current]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Ecuador in tropical moist and wet cloud forests as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of 220 to 350 meters with semi-erect, cane-like stems carrying, distichous, deciduous, linear, deciduous on old growth leaves that blooms in the later spring through fall on an axillary, towards the apice, short, single flowered inflorescence.

CAUTION Here, the drawing in Icones shows much thicker and short floral segments.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 046 Dodson 1980 drawing hmm; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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