Dryadella yupanki ( Luer & R.Vásquez ) Karremans 2016

Photo by © S Manning and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Plant in situ Bolivia Photo by © José Luis Panozo Añez

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Common Name The Yupanki Dryadella [refers to the Incan Yupanki, whose stone buildings, now in ruins, supports this species]

Flower Size .15" [3mm]

Found in Santa Cruz department of Bolivia at elevations of 1900 to 2500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool to cold growing, repent lithophyte with a stout rhizome adpressed to the substrate giving rise to a prostrate, thickly coriaceous, smooth, suffused with dark purple, broadly elliptical, narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring and summer on a successively single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Incaea yupanki (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2006; Masdevallia hornii Königer 1991; Phloeophila yupanki (Luer & R.Vásquez) Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001; Pleurothallis yupanki Luer & R.Vásquez 1984; Specklinia yupanki (Luer & R.Vásquez) Luer 2004

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Phytologia 55: 203. Luer & Vasquez 1984 as Pleurothallis yupanki;

Orchidee (Hamburg) 42: 190 Koniger 1991 as Masdevallia hornii;

Orchids of Bolivia Vasquez & Ibisch Vol 1 2000 as Pleurothallis yupanki photo plant only good/drawing fide;

Lindleyana Vol 16 No 4: Pridgeon & M.W.Chase 2001 as Phloeophila yupanki;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVI Pleurothallis subgenus Acianthera and Three Allied subgenera, A Second Century of new Species of Stelis of Ecuador, Epibator, Ophidion and Zootrophion Luer 2004 as Specklinia yupanki;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Incaea yupanki;

Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVIII A Reconsideration of Masdevallia Systematics of Specklinia Luer 2006 as Incaea yupanki dawing fide;

Phytotaxa 270: 60 Karremans 2016 as Dryadella yupanki;

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