Dryadella dodsonii Luer 1999
Photos by © Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Dodson's Dryadella [Discoverer of species and Orchid Taxomonist Current]
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Valle de Cauca department of Colombia and Esmeraldas province of Ecuador in lowlands in deep moss in high rainfall, pluvial forests at elevations of 200 to 300 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing, repent epiphyte with slender roots and ascending ramicauls enveloped basally by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear, canaliculate, acute leaf that gradually narrows below into the subpetiolate base and blooms in the summer on a slender, erect, .4" [1 cm], long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul and having thin, inflated, longer than the ovary floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the repent, ascending rhizome with a short ramicaul carrying a single, terete leaf that blooms on a short, single flowered inflorescece with the peduncle and pedicel of the tiny flower are extremely short placing the flower at the bottom of the leaf. The sepals are spotted with slender tails about as long as the blade and the broad, flabrellate petals are extremely short." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo ok; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide;
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