Dryadella greenwoodiana Soto Arenas, Salazar & Solano 2002 publ. 2003
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
EARLIER
Common Name or Meaning Greenwood's Dryadella [Canadian Orchid Enthiusast in Mexico later 1900's]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in northern Oaxaca Mexico and Guatemala in pine/oak liquimbar forests at elevations around 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, subtrigonus, oblanceolate to narrowly elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the ill-defined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the earlier summer on an erect, .08 to .12" [2 to 3 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, imbricating floral bracts.
This mini orchid has the only non-linear leaves of the Mexican Dryadella.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Orchidacearum Plate 550 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 # 12 2006 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 25 #1 2007 photo ok; Diversity of Pleurothallidinae in Guatemala: An Endangered Orchid Subtribe with High Economic and Horticultural Potentials Edgar Mo Mo, Cetzal, Basu and Vega 2017 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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