Dryadella zebrina (Porsch) Luer

 Dryadella zebrina (Porsch) Luer, Selbyana 2(2-3): 209 (1978).

Dryadella zebrina (Porsch) Luer, Photos by Vaughan Nelson

its native range is W. South America, SE. & S. Brazil.

Latinh Name: 

Dryadella zebrina (Porsch) Luer

Synonym:

Masdevallia carinata Cogn.

Masdevallia zebrina Porsch

English Name:

The Zebra Dryadella 

Description: 

With narrowly oblanceolate, or linear lanceolate, thick, minutely bilobed apically leaves with the base concealed by several, short, membraneous sheaths that blooms in the spring through fall on a .4" [1 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence carrying a single campanulate flower held amid or below the leaves.  

Distribution:

Bolivia, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Peru.

Ecological:

In damp forests, often with mist and fog late in the day and with a dry seasom in the late spring till fall at elevations of 1500 to 3400 m. 

Flowering times:

Blooms in the spring through fall.

Flower size:

1.5 cm.

Cultivation:

Watering:

Potted, Moist/Daily Watering; 3-5 waterings per week

Watering:

Moist; 3-5 waterings per week (let dry lightly between waterings)

Type: