Dressleria suavis (Ames & C. Schweinf.) Dodson 1975

Lip Detail Photo courtesy of Danny Lentz, plant grown by Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name The Ivory Colored Dressleria

Flower Size

Found from Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane forests at elevqations around 570 to 900 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with slightly compressed, conical pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricating, leafless below and leaf-bearing above sheaths carrying 5 to 6, green, plicate leaves that are basally clasping to the leaf sheaths which blooms in the fall on a basal, lateral, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, racemose, to 8 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 3, imbricating, inflated sheaths.

Synonyms Catasetum dilectum var. suave (Ames & C.Schweinf.) Teusch. 1972; *Catasetum suave Ames & C. Schweinf.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 668 Dodson 1982

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