Dichaea powellii Schltr. 1922 SECTION Pseudodichaea

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Common Name Powell's Dichaea

Flower Size

Found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 200 to 850 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with erect, simple or branched towards the base stems carrying stiffly erect, coriaceous, articulate to the sheath, green, linear-ligulate, acute, apiculate leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Similar to and often cited as a synonym of, but differs in the stiffly erect, coriaceous leaves dehiscent at the sheath, a smooth ovary, and yellow sepals and petals and the minutely papillose, infrastigmatic ligule.

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Ceiba Vol 5 L O Williams 1956; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing good; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing good

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