Dryadella butcheri Luer 1999
Photos by © Weil Dreissen
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name or Meaning Butcher's Dryadella [American orchid Enthusiast in Panama 1900's]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Chiriqui and Panama provinces of Panama at elevations of 650 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing, densely caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptic-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late fall and winter on a congested, to .04" [1 mm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with thin, acuminate, imbricating, as long to longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying the flower at about 1/3 leaf height.
Characterizedby the very small habit, small spotted flowers with caudate sepals, plabellate petals and the incinate-winged column. The columnar processes are similar to those of the much larger D cuspidata of Ecuador." 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; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;
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