Dichaea latifolia Lindl.

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• This name is reported by Orchidaceae as an accepted name in the genus Dichaea (family Orchidaceae).

  The record derives from WCSP which reports it as an accepted name (record 61228)

General Information

Plants pendent from trees or large rocks. Roots mostly at base of shoots and older portions of stems, 0.5-1 mm diam. Stems ensheathed by persistent leaf bases, to 90 cm long, 2-4 mm diam. Leaves numerous; sheaths flattened, angled to stem, 4-9 mm long, 2-5 mm wide; blades entire, oblong-elliptic, obtuse to rounded, apiculate to slightly erose at apex, 4-19 mm long, 4-7 mm wide. Inflorescences axillary, single-flowered, scattered along upper portions of the stem and oriented above foliage; peduncle geniculate, 10-17 mm long; floral bract membranous, suborbicular, funnellike, 2-3.5 mm long. Flowers green, purple spotted, externally tuberculate, resupinate. Ovary sessile, echinate. Dorsal sepal lanceolate, elliptic-ovate to elliptic-oblanceolate, acute to acuminate, 7-10 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; lateral sepals lanceolate to elliptic, acute to acuminate, 6.5-10 mm long, 3-3.5 mm wide. Petals glabrous, entire, ovate to narrowly elliptic, acute to acuminate, 6.5-10 mm long, ca. 3.5 mm wide. Lip short-clawed, anchorshaped, apex and lateral tips pointed, 5-6.5 mm long, 8-9 mm wide when spread. Column green and white, erect, stout, lacking an infrastigmatic ligule, 2.5-3.5 mm long; pollinia yellow. Fruits ca. 10 mm long, covered with soft spines.

• Provided by: [A].Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden

Distribution

Colombia, Venezuela, and West Indies. Distribution in Puerto Rico. Collected from Adjuntas, Barranquitas, Canovanas, Jayuya, Maricao, Naguabo, Rio Grande, San German, and Utuado. Habitat. Epiphytic or lithophytic in the understory of dense, wet forests at high elevations (800-900 m); rare.

• Provided by: [A].Memoirs of the New York Botanical Garden

Dichaea latifolia Lindl. (worldfloraonline.org)

Orchid Species: Dichaea latifolia

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dichaea latifolia is an orchid species identified by Barb.Rodr. in 1833.

Genus

Dichaea (Dich.)

Grex

latifolia
(name currently accepted by Kew)

Parents

Species

Author

Barb.Rodr.

Year

1833

ORIGIN: Found in Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, the Leewards, the Windward Islands, Colombia, Venezuela and Brazil in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, hot to cool, pendant growing epiphyte or lithophyte with, pendent, compressed stems enveloped completely by leaf bearing sheaths and carrying densely, distichously imbricate, conduplicate, rigid, non-articulated, obovate-suborbicular, obtuse, apiculate, margin entire leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, to .68 [1.7 cm] long, filiform, single flowered inflorescence with a membraneous, suborbicular, funnel-like floral bract and carrying resupinate flowers with shortly muricate ovary and echinate capsules.

FLOWER SIZE: 3/4 inch [1.8 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).

https://www.orchids.org/grexes/dichaea-latifolia

 

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