Knits, Dean 2011 Journal Corn-Mazalaya Department, Quiche, Guatemala (cat) May 28... Bromeliads in a secondary forest above the road + got 5 small B. cachimata out of one of them. We then walked all the way to the oak forest at the top, which is now bordered by a corn field that wasn't there in Jan. 2010. We searched from 13:00 on, and I quickly found a large Dendrobium lekechium w/o tail under a small piece of fallen branch near the lower limit of the forest. I worked with Ricardo while Carlos climbed uphill. The Dendrobium is quite pretty with greenish lines down its sides (faint); it looks somewhat like D. sanctibarbara to me. I looked in one of the bromeliads w/ long, thin, spiky leaves that were growing on logs and on the ground and found a tiny B. retrata near the center of the leaf rosette; I later found 5 more this way (one of which escaped); all of which were tiny. We searched in + under logs and fallen wood until 15:45. Ricardo got 3 B. retrata. We then found Carlos, who had stopped searching about an hour earlier + climbed downhill w/ he was told by a hunter who passed by that we had already left. He had also found a small B. retrata inside a log. The forest was fairly dry, although the leaf litter was somewhat wet; seems like the rain in Jay Chichel hasn't gotten here yet. Looked for bromeliads in the oak trees but saw none; habitat is huge, many oaks w/ bromios. Makes me think that D. lekechium may not live (at least not exclusively) in bromeliads. We headed back to Jay Chichel. It had rained lightly while we were searching, but on the way back it began to pour and the rain didn't stop after dinner. We were all very tired + decided not to go out searching tonight.