Dryadella toscanoi Luer 2005

Another Angle Photos by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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

Deep Shade Cool LATE Spring

Common Name or Meaning Toscano's Dryadella [Brazilian Collector of Species current]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil at elevations around 1200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a suberect ramicaul enveloped by 3 thin, loose tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, narrowly cuneate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring on an erect, .16" to .2" [4 to 5 mm] long, congested, successively single flowered inflorescence enveloped by a loose bract, arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, imbricating floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;

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