Dryadella fuchsii Luer 1999

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

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Fuchs' Dryadella [American Orchid Nurseryman and collector later 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica at elevations around 500 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool, densely caespitose growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, suffused with purple along the margins, narrowly linear-obovate, subacute to acute, gradually narrowing below into the ill-defined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer, fall and early winter on an erect, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, purple speckled, shorter than the pedicel floral bracts.

"Distinguished by the small habit with slender leaves less than 1.2" [3 cm] long, small, short stemmed flowrs with shortly tailed sepals marked with transverse, purple spots, petals with an acute angle on the lower margin and a lip with a small pair of acute, antrorse calli below the middle." Luer 1999

Synonyms *Masdevallia espirito-santensis Pabst 1973

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 Systematics of Dryadella and Acronia Section Macrophyllae-Fasciculatae Luer 2005 drawing fide;

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