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Dichaea standleyi is an orchid species identified by Ames in 1925. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Dichaea acroblephara.
ORIGIN: Found only in Costa Rica at elevations around 300 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending stem enveloped by leaf sheaths carrying gramineous, distichous, linaer-oblong, acute, more or less hispidulous on the margins above the middle, complanate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring on axillary, lateral, concealed at the base bt leaf sheaths, .2 to .4" [.5 to 1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with scarious, round-ovate, acute, apically thickened floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.6 inches [1.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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