Dryadella rodrigoi Luer 1999
Photo by © Lynn O'Shaughnessy
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning Rodrigo's Dryadella [R Escobar Colombian Orchid Enthuisiast 1900's]
Flower Size .12" [3 mm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia without elevational data as a mini-miniature sized, densely caespitose epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly linear, semiterete, acute, the epetiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on an erect, less than .08 to .16" [2 to 4 mm] long, congested, successively single, few flowered inflorescence enveloped by a bract, arising from the middle of the ramicaul with thin, imbricating floral bracts.
"Distinguished by the very narrowly semi-terete leaves and broadly ovate, obtuse sepals with tails about .04" [1 mm]long, Most disitnctive are the oblique, narrowly acute petals obtusely angled on the upper margins and with a short, acute apiculum on the labellar margin. Also unusual for the genus is the long, narrow column and even longer column foot." Luer 1999
Synonyms
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 Luer 2005 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #5 2011 photo fide; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 1 Ortiz & Uribe 2014 drawing fide;
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