Dryadella dodsonii Luer 1999

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Common Name Dodson's Dryadella [Discoverer of species and Orchid Taxomonist Current]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring in moss in high rainfall, pluvial forests with slender roots and erect ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear, canaliculate, acute leaf that gradually narrows below into the subpetiolate base and blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, 2/5" [1 cm], long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having thin, inflated floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2002; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005