Dichaea camaridioides Schltr.1920 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name The Camaridium-Like Dichaea

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela and Guyana? in cloud forests and on tepui slopes and summits at elevations of 1200 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool, pendant growing epiphyte with a pendulous, papillose-ciliate, densely leafy stem carrying many, pilose, linear, acute, leaves that blooms on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence.

At this point this species is very suspect as the only reference with a photo or drawing is the Native Colombian photo and it is not even close and I would tend to belive they are right and not Lourens as the flower should appear to be M camaridii-like.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 as D brachypoda not drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 as D brachypoda not drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as D brachypoda not drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchid Vol 1 COS 1990 photo not, mine has hairy leaves and tepals; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 1 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo hmm;

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