Dichaea hystricina Rchb. f. 1865 SECTION Dichaea
Photo by © Mikael Karlbom.
Photo by © Franco Pupulin.
Photo by © Dale and Deni Borders
Plant In situ Dominican Republic
Photo by © Linda & Mikael Karlbom, Sweden
To 
LATE
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name The Bristly Dichaea
Flower Size .28 to .32" [7 to 8 mm]
Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador as well as Brazil in wet montane cloud forests on giant bamboo or mossy braodleaf trees as a caespitose, miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte occurring at elevations of 360 to 2000 meters with erect to semi-pendant, compressed, cane-like stems enveloped completly by imbricating, leaf sheath bases carrying several, coriaceous, pilose margined, densely distichous, conduplicate, non-articulated, narrowly elliptic, acuminate with denticulate-ciliate margin leaves that blooms in the late spring through early fall on an axillary, short, to .24" [6 mm] long, filiform, single flowered inflorescence with 2, the outer sub-orbicular-funnelform, the inner narrowly lanceolate with a muricate ovary and capsule.
Distinguished by the thin apical lateral lobes and the basal auricles of the lip
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920 as D. selaginella; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 72. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D ciliolata; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 265. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D ciliolata; Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939; Ceiba Vol 5 L O Williams 1956; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as D ciliolata drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing fide; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 042 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Catalogo Descriptivo de las Orquideas de Cuba Acuna 1987; Native Orchids of the Eastern Caribbean Kenny 1988; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Orchids ofg Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1992 drawing fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992 photo good; ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1515 Atwood 1993 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 1 Dodson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 30 1841 - 1904 Brieger 1994 drawing fide/photo ok; An Orchid Flora Of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands Ackerman 1995 drawing fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 No 8 1999 photo fide; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Hammel, Grayum, Herrera & Zamora 2003 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 9 2005 photo fide; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 1 Pupulin 2005 photos fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Zamora Chinchipe Tomo 1 Epidendroidea 1 Jimenez y fil 2014 drawing/photos fide; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014; Orchids of the Darien Gap Kolanowska 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of the Department of Valle de Cauca Colombia Vol 4 Kolanowska and Szlachetko 2016 drawing/photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing/photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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