Dryadella (dry-al-DELL-ah) has 40 or more species which were also treated as Masdevallia for many years.  They are named for the dryads, the nymphs of trees and forests of classical mythology.  They are tufted little plants with narrow, fleshy leaves.  The little flowers with short, broad, angled petals are singly or successively produced on short racemes.  They grow from Guatemala to southern Brazil.

        Dryadella acuminata Luer & Hirtz = Dryadella pachyrhiza  

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 30 (4/2005)

    Dryadella albicans (Luer) Luer

    Dryadella ana-paulae V.P.Castro, B.P.Garia & A.D.Santana

    Dryadella aurea Luer & Hirtz

    Dryadella auriculigera (Rchb.f.) Luer

    Dryadella aviceps (Rchb.f.) Luer

    Dryadella barrowii Luer

    Dryadella butcheri Luer

    Dryadella clavellata Luer & Hirtz

    Dryadella crassicaudata Luer

    Dryadella crenulata (Pabst) Luer

    Dryadella cristata Luer & R.Escobar

    Dryadella cuspidata Luer & Hirtz

    Dryadella dodsonii Luer

        Dryadella dolichopoda (Luer) Luer = Dryadella pusiola

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 32 (4/2005)

    Dryadella dressleri Luer

    Dryadella edwallii (Cogn.) Luer

    Dryadella elata (Luer) Luer

    Dryadella espirito-santensis (Pabst) Luer

    Dryadella fuchsii Luer

    Dryadella gnoma (Luer) Luer

    Dryadella gomes-ferreirae (Pabst) Luer

    Dryadella greenwoodiana Soto Arenas, Salazar & Solano

    Dryadella guatemalensis (Schltr.) Luer

    Dryadella hirtzii Luer

    Dryadella kautskyi (Pabst) Luer

    Dryadella lilliputiana (Cogn.) Luer

    Dryadella linearifolia (Ames) Luer

    Dryadella lueriana Carnevali & Romero

    Dryadella marilyniana  Luer

    Dryadella masrupiata Luer

    Dryadella meiracyllium (Rchb.f.) Luer

        Dryadella melloi ((Pabst) Luer = Dryadella lilliputiana

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 24 (4/2005)

    Dryadella minuscula Luer & R.Escobar

        Dryadella misasii Luer & R.Escobar = Dryadella gnoma

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 20 (4/2005)

    Dryadella mocoana Luer & R.Escobar

    Dryadella nasuta Luer & Hirtz

    Dryadella nortonii Luer

        Dryadella obrieniana (Rolfe) Luer = Dryadella aviceps

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 11 (4/2005)

    Dryadella odontostele Luer

        Dryadella osmariniana (Braga) Garay & Dunst. (probable) = Dryadella guatemalensis

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 22, 30 (4/2005)

    Dryadella pachyrhiza Luer & Hirtz

        Dryadella paranaënsis (Schltr.) Luer = Dryadella lilliputiana

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 24 (4/2005)

        Dryadella perpusilla (Kraenzl.) Luer - excluded from Dryadella, (holotype presumably destroyed)

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 41 (4/2005)

        Dryadella popayanensis (F.Lehm. & Kraenzl.) Luer = Dryadella simula

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 33 (4/2005)

    Dryadella pusiola (Rchb.f.) Luer

    Dryadella rodrigoi Luer

    Dryadella simula (Rchb.f.) Luer

        Dryadella simulatrix (Kraenzl.) Luer = Dryadella pusiola

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 32 (4/2005)

    Dryadella sororcula Luer

    Dryadella sublata Luer & J.J.Portilla

    Dryadella summersii (L.O.Williams) Luer

    Dryadella susanae (Pabst) Luer

        Dryadella sylvana F.Barros = Dryadella aviceps

            Icones Pleurothallidinarum XXVII; p. 11 (4/2005)

    Dryadella toscanoi Luer

    Dryadella vasquezii Luer

    Dryadella verrucosa Luer & R.Escobar

    Dryadella vitorinoi Luer

    Dryadella werneri Luer

    Dryadella wuerstlei Luer

    Dryadella zebrina (Porsch) Luer

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