Dresslerella cloesii Luer 2005

SUBGENUS Dresslerella Luer 1976 Photo by © Eric Hunt and Orchid Photos Website

Common Name Cloes' Dresslerella [Belgian Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Zamora-Chinchipe Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with erect, suberect to horizontal, stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, pubescent, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, covered on both sides by white trichomes, elliptic-oblong, subacute, cuneate below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on a stout, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long inflorescence with a succession of single flowers arising through a sheath at the base of the leaf with a long-pubescent floral bract.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;

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