!Dresslerella pertusa (Dressler) Luer 1976 SUBGENUS Dresslerella Luer 1976
Photo by Mulder & Mulder-Roelfsema
Photos by © Dressler/Bogarin and The Epidendra Website
Drawing by Carl Luer
Common Name The Hole Carrying Dresslerella
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in Panama province of Panama in cloud forests at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with horizontal to pendant, slender to stout ramicauls enveloped by 3 to 4, thin, pubescent, imbricating sheaths and carrying an erect in relation to the ramicaul, horizontal, prostrate to pendant, thickly coriaceous, dark green, suffused with purple, more so beneath, elliptical to oblong, subacute, minutely ciliate marginally, cuneate, subcordate and sessile below leaf that blooms in the spring and fall on a single, stout, .15" to 2" [3 to 5 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a loose sheath at the leaf base and a short-pubescent, thin, tubular floral bract.
"Related to the other Panamanian species with the ramicauls forming a rosette of heavy, prostrate leaves but D pertusa differs in the dark fleshy sepals that are connate into a saccate, pyriform flower with a small, rounded opening at the apex." Luer 1988
Synonyms *Pleurothallis pertusa Dressler 1970
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of Dresslerella And Scaphosepalum Vol 5 1988 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Laurent 1992 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42-43 pg 2624 - 2756 Brieger 2001 drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #2 2010 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide;
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