Dryadella ana-paulae V.P.Castro, B.P.Faria & A.D.Santana 2004 TYPE Photo by © V.P.Castro and The Richardiana Website

Drawing Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name or Meaning Ana Paula's Dryadella [Ana Paula Santana Brazilian daughter to collecter of species]

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in west central Brazil and Bolivia in seasonally dry forests at elevations around 390 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, ellipsoid to linear-elliptic, terete, acute to subacute, abruptly cuneate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a ascending, congested, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, imbricating floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Brasilienses II Plate 133 Vittorino Castro Neto 2006 drawing fide;

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