Dichaea poicillantha Schltr. 1923 SECTION Dichaea
Photo by © Franco Pupulin.
Common NameThe Colorful Flowered Dichaea
Flower Size .3" [9mm]
Found only in Costa Rica in moist rain and cloud forests on shady tree trunks at elevations around 200 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, simple to branching, slightly compressed stem carrying subrecurvate-patent, oblong, obtuse and mucronate-serrulate apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, .32 to .44" [.8 to 1.1 cm] long, erect-patent, single flowered inflorescence with cucullate-ovate, apiculate floral bracts and a muricate ovary.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 73. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Ceiba Vol 5 L O Williams 1956; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dresssler 1993; Orchid Digest Vol 60 #4 1996 photo fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera & Zamora 2003; Vanishing Beauty, Native Orchids of Costa Rica Pupulin 2005 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 76 NO 8 2007 drawing fide; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 5 Epidendroideae Part 2 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase and Rasmusen 2009 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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