Dryadella liliputiana [Cogn.] Luer 1978 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt, plant grown by Hanging Gardens

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Common Name The Liliputian Dryadella [Refers to the smallness of the plant]

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

A dwarf erect, clustered leaf, caespitose epiphyte from Sao Paulo state in Brazil that has no psuedobulbs, erect stems on a short rhizome carrying a single, apical, erect to erect-spreading, rigid, subterete, canaliculate, fleshy, slightly arcuate, linear-fusiform, acute leaf, and has many very short [1.2 to 1.6 cm] inflorescence with membraneous, subpellucid, white bracts and solitary flowers held a bit higher than the leaf that appear in the winter if kept in moist warm to cold conditions.

Synonyms *Masdevallia liliputiana Cogn. 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005