Dichaea schlechteri Folsom 1994 SECTION Dichaea Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Common Name Schlechter's Dichaea [German Botanist and Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found only in Costa Rica at elevations of 500 to 2000 meters in moist forests on shady tree trunks as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, .4 to .6" [1 to 1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with thin-textured flowers

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 58 No 4 1994 drawing fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Orchids of Costa Rica Pupulin 2005

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