Dryadella fuchsii Luer 1999

TYPE Drawing by © Carl Luer and the The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

LATER EARLY

Common Name or Meaning Fuchs' Dryadella [American Orchid Nurseryman and collector later 1900's]

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica at elevations around 500 to 1700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect ramicaul enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, dark green, suffused with purple along the margins, narrowly linear-obovate, subacute to acute, gradually narrowing below into the ill-defined, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer, fall and early winter on an erect, .04 to .08" [1 to 2 mm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence arising from low on the ramicaul with thin, purple speckled floral bracts.

"Distinguished by the small habit with slender leaves less than 1.2" [3 cm] long, small, short stemmed flowrs with shortly tailed sepals marked with transverse, purple spots, petals with an acute angle on the lower margin and a lip with a small pair of acute, antrorse calli below the middle." Luer 1999

Synonyms *Masdevallia espirito-santensis Pabst 1973

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 Pleurothallidianrum Vol XXVII Luer 2005 drawing fide;

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