Dryadella dressleri Luer 1999
Photo by © Azucena Briones
TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Dressler's Dryadella [American Orchidist in Panama current]
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Panama in lowland forests at elevations around 100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing epiphtye with erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly elliptical-obovate, subacute to obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on a .05 to .1" [1 to 2 mm] long, single flowered successive, racemose inflorescence.
"Similar to D sorocorula but the habit is small but the tranversely banded flowers are nearly as large as those of the similar D simula from the ANdes. The three sepals are narrowly ovate and more or less thickly caudate, the tails almost as long as the blaades. The saggitate petals are simlar to D sororcula. The characteristic lobule below the apex of the petal of D simula is not present. In common with D sororcula te blade of the lip is deeply channeled centrally between the calli." Luer 1999
CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution! The Type drawing by Carl Luer is absolutely correct.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XVIII Systematics of Pleurothallis subsection Antenniferae, Longiracemosae, Macrophyllae-Racemosae and Subgenera Pseudsostelis and Acuminata Luer 1999 drawing fide; Icones Pleurothallidinarum Vol XXVII Dryadella and Acronia section Macrophyllae-Fasciclatae Luer 2005 drawing hmm
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