Caluera vulpina Dodson & Determann 1983

Plant in situ with flowers

Photos by Karl Senghas © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

TYPE Drawing

TYPE Drawing by Dodson © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full shade Hot LATESummer EARLY Fall

Common Name or Meaning Taveres Caluera

Flower Size .32" [8 mm]

Found in French Guiana, Colombia and [Napo] Ecuador in deep shade on small trees at elevations around 300 to 500 meters as a mini-mini miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with a few, obliquely elliptic to oblong-obovate, acuminate to apiculate, granulose, purplish green, grading in size leaves that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a .4" [1 cm] long, capitate, dense, 4 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 908 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; *AOS Bulletin Vol 52 # 4 1983 drawingphoto fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1994 Photo; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 drawing fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #1 2007 photo fide; Orchids of French Guiana Slatchetko, Veyret etal 2012 drawing ok; A Compendium of Miniature Orchid Species Parsons & Gerritsen 2013 photos fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide

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