Dilomilis scirpoidea (Schltr.) Summerh. 1961

Drawing by © MArk Nir

Common Name The Reed-Like Dilomilis

Flower Size

Found in Barahona province of Dominican Republic and the Nord department of Haiti in wet, broadleaf forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial, lithophyte of Epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to a flexuous, subfiliform stem enveloped completely by minutely verruculose sheaths and carrying erect-patent, filiform, acute, glabrous leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, fasciculate, basally enveloped by sheaths, few flowered inflorescence with minute, much shorter than the pedicel floral bracts and carrying pellucid, straw-colored flowers with a purple veined lip.

Synonyms *Octadesmia scirpoidea Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Symb. Antill. 7: 494 Schlechter 1913 as Octasdesmia scirpodea;

* Taxon 10: 253 Summerh. 1961;

Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014;

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