Dichaea trichocarpa (Sw.) Lindl. 1833 SECTION Dichaea Photo courtesy of Franco Pupulin.

Full Shade Warm Spring

Common Name The Hairy Seed Capsule Dichaea

Flower Size .6" [1.5 mm]

Found in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Niacaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica in moist elfin and cloud forests on shady tree trunks at elevations of 1550 to 1800 meters as a medium to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with a pendant, branching, compressed stem completely enveloped by imbricating leaf-bearing sheaths carrying conduplicate, rigid, linear-lanceolate, acuminate leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, single flowered, filiform inflorescence with 2 broadly ovate acute bracts.

Synonyms Cymbidium trichocarpon (Sw.) Sw. 1799; *Epidendrum trichocarpum Sw. 1788;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing ok; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 155. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 659 Hamer/Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000; Vanisihing Beauty, Native Orchids of Costa Rica Pupulin 2005

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