Dressleria helleri Dodson 1975
Photo by © Orchi and The Wikipedia Website
Drawing by Fritz Hamer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria
Drawing by Omar E. Rocha G. and Taxonomic Revision of Dressleria [Orchidaceae, Catasetinae] Harold Hills Website
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Common Name Heller's Dressleria [Nicaraguan Botanist 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane cloud forests at elevations around 915 meters as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with caespitose, conical to elongate conical pseudobulbs carrying green, plicate, erect, narrowly elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring on a basal, erect, racemose, 8 to 10" [20 to 25 cm] long, 5 to 12 flowered inforescence carrying fragrant flowers
"Dressleria helleri is most similar to D. dilecta and primarily differs by its shape of the opening to the sac that is cordate and a floral fragrance dominated by beta ocimene and pdimethoxybenzene. Dressleria dilecta has a floral fragrance with alpha pinene, 1,8 cineole and lesser amounts of p-dimethoxybenzene and a more rectangular opening to the sac." Harold Hills 2012
Similar to D eburnea but differs in the smaller cavity of the lip which has a thin, erect, flap of tissue on each side rather than a thickened callus. The column is adnate to the lip to its apex whereas in D eburnea the column is free from the lip for part of its length.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 667 Hamer 1982 drawing hmm; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing hmm; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 26 1584 - 1648 Brieger 1992 drawing hmm; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Choco Colombia Misas 2005 as D helleri not - D kerryae; Digest Vol 73 #3 2009 = D kerryi; *Hills, H.G. 2012. Taxonomic revision of Dressleria (Orchidaceae, Catasetinae). Phytoneuron 2012-48: 1–28. Published 23 May 2012. ISSN 2153 733X drawing ok; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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