Dichaea lehmannii Schltr.1920
Photo by © Sociedad Colombiana de Orquideologia
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
Common Name Lehmann's Dichaea [German council and Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size 1.7" [4.4 cm]
Found in Colombia at elevations around 1300 to 1700 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pendent, arcuate, terete, leafy stem carrying articulate, narrowly linear, acute, falcate-patent leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on an axillary, thin, short single flowered inflorescence with a cucullate-ovate, acuminate floral bract.
CAUTION!!! I cannot be sure of this photo determination so please use with caution! The TYPE Drawing is absolutely correct!
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis, Beihefte 7: 201. Schlechter 1920; Repertorium Specierum Novarum Regni Vegetabilis, Beihefte 57: #278. Schlechter 1929 Drawing fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo hmm; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing ok?/photo not; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide;
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