Dichaea neglecta Schltr. 1918 SECTION Dichaea
Photos by © Rudolph Jenny and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Webpage
Photos by © Belize Botanic Gardens © and their Belize Botanic Garden Webpage
Common Name The Neglected Dichaea
Flower Size 1/4" [.8cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 1200 to 1800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, densely caespitose, cool growing epiphyte with a branching, compressed stem completely enveloped by leaf bearing, green spotted sheaths and each carrying distichous, alternate, ovate, acute, 3 veined on each side, articuated to the clasping sheaths that blooms in the fall on an axillary, short, .4 to .48" [1 to 1.2 cm] long, longer than the leaves, single flowered inflorescence with a finely muricate ovary
Synonyms Dichaea muricata var. neglecta (Schltr.) Kraenzl. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala Vol 2 Ames and Correll 1953 as D muricata var neglecta; Ceiba Vol 5 L O Williams 1956; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing fide/photo fide; Miniature Orchids Northen 1980 photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 656 Hamer 1982 drawing ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994; Orchid Digest Vol 60 #4 1996 photo hmm; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera & Zamora 2003; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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