Dryadella marilyniana Luer 2006 TYPE Photo of Dryadella marilyniana "Okemos" CBR/AOS 2009 by © Joyce Eliot and The American Orchid Society Dryadella Website

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

Common Name Marilyn's Dryadella [Ms. Lee American Orchid Enthusaiast current]

Flower Size .2" [5mm]

Found in Ecuador without locality at lower elevations as a mini-miniature sized, warm growingdensely casespitose epiphyte? with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3, thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear-obovate, acute t osubacute, gradually narrowing below into the indistinct petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect, .06 to .08" [1.5 to 2 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul, enveloped by a membraneous bract and a thin, shorter to as long as the ovary floral bracts.

"Easily distinguished by the lack of tails and a deeply fringed lip. Most similar to D aurea but it does not ahve a fringed lip and it is yellow. The only other known species with anything like a fringed lip is D crenulata which has a denticulate lip margin and it has long tails." Luer 2006

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; * Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006drawing fide; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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