Dressleria fragrans Dodson 1998 Photo by © Wlliam C Whitehall and Taxonomic Revision of Dressleria [Orchidaceae, Catasetinae] Harold Hills Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson

Common Name The Fragrant Dressleria

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in western Ecuador at elevations of 400 to 1400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with swollen, oblong, 8 to 10 internoded pseudobulbs carrying 8 to 10, basallly clasping, distichous, thin, narrowly oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, acuminate leaves that have a persistent foul odor, that blooms in the fall on a basal, to 8" [20 cm] long, erect, 5 to 18 flowered inflorescence with simultaneously opening, fragrant flowers.

Very similar to Dressleria dodsoniana and almost indistinguishable except for the differences in location, minor lip details and mostly fragrance which attract different pollinators. D fragrans has a fragrance of Eugenol and only attracts the male bees of the species Eulaema cingulata.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Pl 55 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; *Orquideologia Vol. 21 No 1 Dodson 1998 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide/photo good; *Hills, H.G. 2012. Taxonomic revision of Dressleria (Orchidaceae, Catasetinae). Phytoneuron 2012-48: 1–28. Published 23 May 2012. ISSN 2153 733X photo fide

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