Dichaea latifolia Lindley 1833 Drawing by Cogniaux

Common Name The Broad-Leaved Dichaea

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8cm]

Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Leewards, the Windward Islands, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 1500 meters as a large to giant sized, warm to cool, pendant growing epiphyte with, pendent, compressed stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying densely, distichously imbricate, conduplicate, rigid, non-articulated, obovate-suborbicular, obtuse, apiculate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on axillary, to .68" [1.7 cm] long, filiform, single flowered inflorescence carrying resupinate flowers.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as D muricata drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 as D muricata drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1979 as D muricata drawing hmm; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing fide/photo ok

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