!Dressleria dilecta (Rchb. f.) Dodson 1975 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Selected Dressleria

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found as a small to medium sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte or lithophyte from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 500 to 1500 meters medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with fusiform pseudobulbs enveloped completely by imbricating dry, inflated leaf sheaths with the uppermost carrying elliptic, plicate, basally clasping, acute leaves and blooming in the spring on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, several flowered, racemose inflorescence enveloped basally by imbricating, inflated, acuminate bracts and fragrant [albeit foul], hermaphroditic, non resupinate flowers that are variable in shape and color.

Synonyms *Catasetum dilectum Rchb. f. 1866; Catasetum eburneum Rolfe 1906; Dressleria eburnea (Rolfe) Dodson 1975;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VI Hoehne 1942 as Catasetum dilectum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 666 Dodson 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 1 COS 1990 as d eburnea; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 6 1993 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002 as D eburnea; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005; Vanishing Beauty; Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 as Dressleria eburnea

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