Dryadella perpusilla (Kraenzl.) Luer 1978 Photo by © Karl Senghas

Common Name or Meaning The Very Small Dryadella

Flower Size

Found in Peru at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls carrying a single, thickly coriaceous, linear-oblong, obtuse, carinate leaf that blooms on a dense, .4" [1 cm] long, successively single, few flwoered inflorescence with transluscent, ovate, acute sheaths.

Synonyms *Masdevallia perpusilla Kraenzl. 1911

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

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