Dryadella aurea Luer & Hirtz 1999
Photos by © Milan Vagner
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Epidendra Orchid Website
Common Name or Meaning The Golden Dryadella [refers to the flowers color]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Morona-Santiago province of Ecuador and Pasco deartment of Peru in lowland forests as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, caespitose epiphyte at elevations around 700 to 950 meters with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear-obovate, acute, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, successively single flowered, .4" [1 cm] long, racemose inflorescnece arising from low on the ramicaul and enveloped by a sheath and carrying thin, imbricating floral bracts.
"Characterized by the small habit, narrowly oblovate leaves, small, clear, yellow orange flowers, acute, acuminate but tailess sepals and a thick, suboblongblade of the lip with apair of low, rounded cainae below the middle." Luer 1999
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 2 Dodson 2001 drawing/photo fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010 drawing fide/photo fide; Of Mice and Men Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo fide
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