Dryadella minuscula Luer & R.Escobar 1978
Photo by © Carlos Uribe Velez
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Very Tiny Dryadella
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Antioquia department of Colombia at elevations around 800 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, thickly coriaceous, semiterete, purple mottled, narrowly ovoid, obtuse, slightly narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, less than .04" [less than 1 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence enveloped by a bract with thin, imbricating floral bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orquideologia 13: 43 Luer & Escobar 1978 Drawing/photo/collection sheet fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Systematics of the Pleurothallidinae Vol 1 1986 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;
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