!Duckeella adolphii Porto & Brade 1938 publ. 1940
Photo courtesy of © Dalton Holland Baptista © and Orchidstudium
Drawing by © Foldats
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Common Name Adolph's Duckeela [German Orchid Collector in Brazil early 1900's]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Colombia, Venezuela and Amazonas state of Brazil at elevations of 100 to 400 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 1 to 5, acuminate, basal, linear leaves held in a single plane fan that blooms in the late spring on an erect, terminal, simple to branched, successively single, few to several flowered inflorescence arising from imbricating, triangular, acute floral bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII II Hoehne 1945 drawing good; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 1 Pabst & Dungs 1975 drawing fide; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 5 COS 1994 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmussen 2003 drawing fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 20(2): 67–216. Ossenbach & Jenny 2020
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