Dryadella barrowii Luer 2005

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Common Name Barrow's Dryadella [British Cultivator of Species current]

Flower Size 5/8" [1.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations of 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly linear-ellptical, subacute leaf that blooms in the fall on a erect, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescnece that arises from low on the ramicaul and has a bract near the base and thin floral bracts..

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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