Dryadella verrucosa Luer & R.Escobar 1999

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Verrucose Dryadella [refers to the blade of the lip]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia in cloud forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, pusticulate on the dorsal surface, subacute, gradually narrowed below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, .16 to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, congested, successively single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a bract, arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, imbricating, as long to shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

" Similar to D simula but difffers in the pusticulate leaves and sepals. The sepals are broadly ovate, obtues and shortly acuminate but tailless. The petals are somewhat similar, the lip blade however is diffusely and markedly verrucose." Luer 1999

Synonyms

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 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;

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