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Orchid Species: Dichaea muyuyacensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Dichaea muyuyacensis is an orchid species identified by Dodson in 1993.
ORIGIN: Found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador at elevatiosn of 260 to 1100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant, simple to basally branched stem enveloped by imbricating sheathing leaf bases carrying distichous, dense, horizontally spreading, not articulated, dark green, elliptic-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, cross veins in between the principal parelell veins leaves that blooms in the fall on an axillary, suberect, longer than the leaves, filiform, to .8 [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with densely muricate ovary and capsule ad carrying pale pink flowers with the tepals heavilly flecked with blue, the white lip also blue spotted and the column and anther are white.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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