Dryadella auriculigera ( Rchb.f. ) Luer 1978 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

Common Name The Ear Carrying Dryadella

Flower Size 1/10" [3mm]

Found in Brazil as a miniature sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped basally b y2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying asingle, apical, erect, purple speckled, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-semiterete, subacute, gradually narrows belwo into the base leaf that can bloom at any time of the year on a successively single flowered, 1/20" [1 mm] long, from low on the ramicaul inflorescence with a bract and a thin floral bract..

Synonyms Masdevallia auriculigera ( Rchb.f. ) Rchb.f. 1878; *Pleurothallis auriculigera Rchb.f. 1871

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Pleurothallis auriculigera; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Masdevallia uriculigera; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005

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