Dryadella aurea

Dryadella aurea Luer & Hirtz, Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 76: 159 (-160) (1999).

Dryadella aurea Luer & Hirtz, Photo by Mario Portilla Andrade

its native range is SE. Ecuador to Peru.

Latin Name: 

Dryadella aurea Luer & Hirtz

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

No synonyms are recorded for this name.

English Name:

The Golden Dryadella (refers to the flowers color).

Description: 

With erect ramicauls enveloped by 2 to 3 thin, loose, tubular sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, thickly coriaceous, narrowly linear-obovate, acute, gradually narrows below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a congested, successively single flowered, 1 cm long, racemose inflorescnece arising from low on the ramicaul and enveloped by a sheath and carrying thin, imbricating floral bracts.

Distribution:

Ecuador, Peru.

Ecological:

As a mini-miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte at elevations around 700 to 950 m.

Flowering times:

Blooms in the fall.

Flower size:

5.0  mm.

Cultivation:

Keep plant in partial shade. Plant can be grown in cool to intermediate conditions. Plants are best mounted on treefern fibers or cork, but also can be potted in fine bark with perlite or sphagnum moss. Water regularly and keep potting media moist.

Typus:

Collector Team:

C.A.Luer, A.L.Jesup, J.P.Luer, P.Jesup, A.C.Hirtz 13963

Type Herbaria:

holotype MO

Distribution Of Types:

Cordillera del Cutucú, epiphytic in forest along the new road between Mendez and Morona, 950 m, Morona-Santiago (Ecuador, Western South America, Southern America)

Ecuador. Morona-Santiago: Cordillera del Cutucú, epiphytic in forest along the new road between Mendez and Morona, alt. 950 m, 17 January 1989, C. Luer, J. Luer, P. Jesup, A. Jesup & A. Hirtz 13963 (holotype, MO).

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/319826-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:319826-2

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/dryaurea.htm.

- http://www.orchidsnewguinea.com/orchid-information/species/speciescode/155

- https://www.epidendra.com/taxones/Dryadella/Dryadella%20aurea/index.html

- https://orchids.fandom.com