Nemaconia dressleriana (Soto Arenas) Van den Berg, Salazar & Soto Arenass 2007
Photo by © Patricia Harding
Photo by © ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 The Herbario AMO Website
Drawing by Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Dressler's Nemaconia [American Botanist in central America current]
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found from Mexico and Guatemala at elevations around 2000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing lithophyte with erect, branching, reed-like, terete stems carrying leafy above, erect to slightly arcuate, distichous, narrowly linear-lanceolate, obtuse-rounded leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on a terminal or at the nodes of defoliated stems, short, subsessile, successively single to few flowered inflorescence with elliptic subquadrate floral bracts.
There are 2 Nemaconia with hairy sepals, N dresleriana and N pellita, N pellita differs in the larger plant [to 6 meters], often pendent, more reddish flowers, narrower petals, the segments longitudinally lined and blotched with purple.
Synonyms *Ponera dressleriana Soto Arenas 1990
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orquídea (Mexico City), n.s., 12(1): 118 Soto Arenas 1990 as Ponera dressleriana drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001 as Ponera dressleriana; Icones Orchidacearum Plate 643 Hagsater & Soto 2002 as Ponera dressleriana drawing fide; Orquideas del Estado de Morelos ORQUÍDEA (MÉX.) VOLUMEN 16 NÚMERO ÚNICO enero 2002 as Ponera dressleriana drawing/photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 12 2006 photo fide;
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