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Orchid Species: Dryadella popayanensis

Kew currently accepted name is Dryadella simula

Dryadella popayanensis is an orchid species identified by (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer in 1978. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dryadella simula.
Genus
Dryadella (Dda.)
Grex
popayanensis
Parents
Species
Author
(F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer
Year
1978
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ORIGIN: A mini-miniature sized, cold growing, epiphytic herb without pseudobulbs that is found at 2000 to 3100 meters in elevation in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in the lower cloud forests with a pronounced dry season in the summer and fall.

DESCRIPTION: A mini-miniature sized, cold growing, epiphytic herb without pseudobulbs that is found at 2000 to 3100 meters in elevation in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in the lower cloud forests with a pronounced dry season in the summer and fall and has terete ramicauls enveloped by close, tubular, scarious sheaths that are soon evanescent carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear lanceolate, obtuse, minutely tridentate, gradually tapering to the conduplicate, channeled base leaf with an abscission layer and an annulus from which arises a short to 3/4 [2 cm], few [3 to 4] flowered inflorescence that carries a single successively opening flower at a time held at mid-leaf height all occurring in the spring.

FLOWER SIZE: 1/2 inch [1.5 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dryadella Dda simula 1978 (Rchb.f.) Luer
Add+ Masdevallia Masd simula 1875 Rchb.f.
Add+ Masdevallia Masd popayanensis 1921 F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Dda. simula 'Legion' (2016) Dda. simula 'Emiliana' (2015) Dda. simula 'Zoltan' (2014) Dda. simula 'Lilli' (2014) Dda. simula 'Manuel Alejandro' (2013) Dda. simula 'Evergreen Gargantua' (1982) Masd. simula h.v. o'brieniana 'Spy Hill' (1965)
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