!Dresslerella pertusa (Dressler) Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dresslerella Luer 1976 Photo by © Wiel Driessen
Another Angle Photos courtesy of EDGAR ALFREDO MÒ MÒ ©
Common Name The Hole Carrying Dresslerella
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with horizontal to pendant, slender to stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, thin, pubescent, imbricating sheaths and carrying an erect in relation to the ramicaul, horizontal, prostrate to pendant, thickly coriaceous, dark green, suffused with purple, more so beneath, elliptical to oblong, subacute, minutely ciliate marginally, cuneate , subcordate and sessile below leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a single, stout, .15" to 2" [3 to 5 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a loose sheath at the leaf base and a short-pubescent, thin, tubular floral bract.
I am not sure of this determination. Several differences are apparent between the photo and Luer's drawing most especially the size and shape of the window and the lack of several features including the saccate, pyriform flower shape. Could be D hispida but differs in the less bulbous flower. Could be D stellaris and is right in most respects other than where it came from
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide
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