Dryadella gomes-ferreirae (Pabst) Luer 1978 Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium

Common Name Gomes-ferreira's Dryadella [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species]

Flower Size

Found in Pernambuco state of Brazil with slender, erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, narrowly elliptical, subacute, gradually narrowing below into the ill defined petiolate base leaf that blooms on a very short, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul.

Synonyms *Masdevallia gomes-ferreirae Pabst 1975

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothalidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2004