Dryadella susanae (Pabst) Luer 1978 Drawing by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Susan's Dryadella [Ms Ferreira de Mello Brazilan Orchid Enthusaist current]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Espirito Santo Brazil at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a very mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a suberect ramicaul enveloped by 2 thin, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect to suberect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical, obtuse, contracted below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, .04" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a loose bract, with thin, imbricating floral bracts.

Vegetatively unique within Dryadella, this super miniature sized orchid has very small, thick, suberect, elliptical, overlapping leaves and forms dense mats.

Synonyms *Masdevallia susanae Pabst 1976

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as Masdevallia susanae drawing fide; Orchid Digest Vol 49 No 3 1985 as Masdevallia susanae drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;

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