Dendrophylax alcoa Dod 1983 Photo by © Uluwehi Knecht and his Flickr orchid Photo Website

Plant and Flower Photo by © Mikael Karlbom and his Flickr orchid Photo Website

Partial Shade Cool LATERFall EARLIERWinter

Common Name The Very Delicate Dendrophylax

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm]

Found in the Dominican Republic in Las Abejas in the Sierra de Baoruco and in Cuba in broadleafed florests at elevations around 1300 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing leafless epiphyte with out leaves and an insignificant stem with numerous, gray-tan, fasciculate, to 12" [30 cm] long roots that blooms in the later fall and earlier winter on 1 to 3, fasciculate, sparsely tuberculate, filiform, rarely branched, subfractiflex, distichous, successively single, laxly up to 2 open at once, to many flowered inflorescence with verrucose, truncate floral bracts and carrying resupinate, yellow flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Orchid Flora of the Greater Antilles Ackerman 2014

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