Dichaea suarezii Dodson 1989 SECTION Dichaeopsis

Plant and Flower Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing by © Dodson and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Suarez's Dichaea [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast and discoverer of species current]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found eastern Ecuador at elevations of 450 to 1000 meters as a small to just medium sized sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with arcuate-pendent, elongate, basally branching stems enveloped by distichous, imbricate, deciduous, oblong-elliptic, acute, arcuate leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 441 Dodson 1989 drawing good; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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