Macroclinium dalessandroi Dodson 1984 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
TYPE Drawing by © Calaway Dodson
Common Name Dalessandro's Macradenia [Ecuadorian Orchid Enthusiast current]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Zamora-Chinchipe province of Ecuador at elevations around 1600 to 2000 meters as a cool growing epiphyte with a monopodial, pendent stem enveloped completely by greenish red covered in red pustules, conduplicate, closely set, equitant, obliquely triangular, acute leaves that blooms at mopst any time of the year on an axillary, pendent, to 1" [2.5 cm] long, capitate, 5 top 7 flowered inflorescence carrying hyaline flowers.
"Distinguished by the monopodial pendent habit and the slender segments of the flowers." Dodson 1984
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 32 1977 - 2056 Brieger 1996; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide;
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