Dryadella minuscula Luer & R.Escobar 1978

Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Smallest Dryadella [refers to the plants size]

Flower Size .1" [2mm]

Found in Antioquia department of Colombia on the central cordillera at elevations around 800 to 1300 meters as a densely caespitose, mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, purple mottled, thickly coriaceous, semiterete, narrowly ovoid, obtuse, slighly narrowed below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on a congested, .05" [1mm. long, successively few flowered, racemose inflorescence with thin, imbricating floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia Vol 13 No 1 1978 photo/drawing/herbarium sheet fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Luer 2005; Genera Orchidacearum Vol 4 part 1 Pridgeon, Cribb, Chase & Rasmussen 2005 drawing good;

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