Dresslerella powellii (Ames) Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dresslerella Luer 1976
Photo by © Dale Borders
TYPE Drawing by Carl Luer
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Common Name Powell's Dressleria [American Botanist early 1900's, original collector of species]
Flower Size 1/8" [7 mm ]
Found in Colon and Panama provinces of Panama from near sealevel to 300 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte that grows in shady places with a velvety green leaf held flat to the tree branch and with the slender to stout, ramicauls forming a rosette of thick, prostrate, elliptical to oblong, subacute to obtuse leaves that are slightly ciliate along the edge and blooms a short 1/8" [2 to 3 mm], held close to the leaf base, single flowered inflorescence with a loose, basal leaf sheath and a densly pubescent, thin, tubular floral bract occuring in winter and late summer.
"Similar to Dresslerella hispida but distinguished by a scotoform shaped synsepal with markedly recurved margins inflated at the apex and elliptical petals. The deeply connate sepals form into a small, pubescent, tubular flower." Luer 1988
Synonyms *Cryptophoranthus powellii Ames 1923; Pleurothallis deceptrix Dressler 1970
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide;
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