Dichaea cleistogama Dodson 1989 SECTION Pseudodichaea

Leaves and flower Photos by © Orchi and The Wikimedia Commons Webpage

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Epidendra Webpage

Common Name The Closed Flower Dichaea

Flower Size .28" [7 mm]

Found in Ecuador at elevations around 1100 to 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a cane-like, short, arcuate stem enveloped almost completely by imbricating leaf sheath bases carrying, deciduous, linear-oblong, acute, arcuate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, towards the apex of the stem, to .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with ovate floral bracts and carrying white suffused with pink flowers with a muricate ovary.

Distinguished by the dehiscent leaves at the sheath, the cleistogamous flowers, and the muricate ovary.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icon. Pl. Trop., ser. 2, 5: t. 436 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 Drawing ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroideae 1 Jimenez y fil 2014 photo fide;

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