Dichaea hystricina Rchb. f. 1865 SECTION Dichaea Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Flower closeup Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders

Plant In sit Dominican Republic Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom, Sweden

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Common Name The Bristly Dichaea

Flower Size 2/5" [1 mm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador as well as Brazil in wet montane cloud forests as a caespitose, miniature to small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte occurring at elevations of 400 to 2000 meters with erect to semi-pendant, cane-like stems carrying several, coriaceous, pilose margined, distichous, narrowly elliptic leaves and blooms on a short, single flowered, axillary inflorescence arising in the spring through fall.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as D. selaginella; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 72. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D ciliolata; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 265. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D ciliolata; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D ciliolata drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 042 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1515 Atwood 1993 drwaing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; ; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999 photo; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 10 2005 photo; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide

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