Dichaea muricata (Sw.) Lindl. 1833 SECTION Dichaeopsis Photo courtesy of Marc Phillipe and his Orchid Homepage

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Common Name The Point Covered Dichaea

Flower Size to 1/2" [1 to 2 cm]

Found from Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru and Brazil on steep forested slopes at elevations of 700 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, pendant, cool to hot growing epiphyte with cane-like stems that seldom branch carrying several, narrowly ovate, close-set, distichous leaves that are not deciduous blooming in the winter with fragrant flowers that appear within the end axils of the leaves on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence. Many references give Central America as a location but these have been moved to Dichaea latifolia.

Synonyms *Cymbidium muricatum Sw. 1799; Dichaea bradeorum Schltr. 1923; Dichaea morrisii Fawc. & Rendl. 1910; Dichaea moritzii Rchb.f 1858; Dichaea muricata var. moritzii (Rchb.f.) Cogn. 1906Dichaea ovatipetala Schltr. 1923; Dichaea robusta Schltr. 1929; Dichaea similis Schltr. 1923; Dichaea verrucosa A. & S. 1925; Epidendrum muricatum (Sw.) Poir. 1810

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing hmm; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 154. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D bradeorum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 264. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D brenesii; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 307. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as D similis; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 9 1961; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing not = D latifolia; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 1 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo hmm; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing not = D latifolia; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as D morrisii drawing ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 044 Dodson 1980 drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 658 Hamer 1982 as D similis drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 662 Hamer 1982 as D verrucosa drawing hmm; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo hmm; Orchids from The Coast Of Ecuador Arosemana, Jurado, Estrada and Konanz 1988 photo ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as D robusta drawing ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 as D robusta photo hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as Dichaea robusta; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo ok; Flora of Ecuador No 87 225[3] Orchidaceae Dodson & Luer 2010

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