Judging Center: National Capital Judging Center
Award Number: 20214672
Award Date: November 06, 2021
Awarded As: Dryadella elata
To: SITF
From: Valerie Lowe, Chair, National Capital Judging Center
Date: December 8, 2021
Plant awarded at National Capital Center Judging in Washington DC on November 6, 2021
20214672 – Dryadella elata, CHM/82
Info found:
WCSP: Accepted Dryadella elata (Luer) Luer, Selbyana 2: 208 (1978). Distribution: WC. & C. Ecuador
83 ECU
This name is Accepted by:
• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Dodson, C.H. & Luer, C.A. (2010). Flora of Ecuador 225(3): 1-438. Botanical Institute, University of Göteborg, Riksmuseum, Stockholm.
And in IOSPE: http://www.orchidspecies.com/dryelata.htm
Description from entry form: Sixteen triangular flowers and six buds at the base of a plant 7.0 cm wide by 9.0 cm tall by 8.0 cm deep with lanceolate leaves measuring up to 8 cm long by 0.6 cm wide mounted on a wood block 5 cm wide by 13 cm long by 1.5 cm deep; leaf base encased by bract; flowers rise through bract on 1.0-cm long inflorescence; acuminate sepals, very small petals and lip chartreuse evenly dotted burgundy, dorsal sepal strongly hooded; petals and lip too small to measure; substance firm; texture matte.
Plant > Leaf Length: 8
Plant > Leaf Width: 0.6
Plant > Leaf Margin: entire
Plant > Leaf Shape: lanceolate
Inflorescence > Overall Length: 1
Inflorescence > Distance from base of inflorescence to first bud or branch: 1
Inflorescence > distance between flowers along inflorescence: 0
Flower Natural Spread Length: 0.8
Flower Natural Spread Width: 0.9
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Length: 0.6
Flower > Dorsal Sepal Width: 0.3
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Length: 0.6
Flower > Lateral sepals or synsepal Width: 0.3