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Dryadella cristata (Dryadella cristata)

Description

It is an orchid small, growing habit epiphytic with ramicauls erect wrapped basally 2-3 thin, loose and carrying a single sheet, apical, erect, thick leathery, closely elliptical, subacute, which gradually narrows at the base tubular sheaths . It blooms in a successive flowering of few flowers, congested, in a long inflorescence that appears in the lower part of the ramicaule with a thin and thin bract, with imbricated floral bracts.

Taxonomic tree

  • Domain: Eukarya

    • Kingdom: Plantae

      • Phylum: Magnoliophyta

        • Class: Liliopsida

          • Order: Asparagales

            • Family: Orchidaceae

              • Genus: Dryadella