Maxillaria camaridii [Lindl.] Rchb.f 1863 Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Flowering plant ensitu in MexicoPhoto courtesy of Noble Bashor

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Common Name The Camaridium Maxillaria

Flower Size to 2 1/2" [to 6 cm]

A tropical wet forest, ascending, medium to large sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with prominent bifoliate psuedobulbs and axillary growths found at 200-1200 meters with an elongate rhizome encased in distichous, imbricating, scarious sheaths which when in active growth carry distichous, conduplicate, imbricating, foliaceous leaf sheaths with elliptic, compressed psedobulbs that are borne at intervals along the rhizome, carrying linear-ligulate, bilobed leaf that is conduplicate at the base which blooms from the winter through spring with showy, very short-lived, fragrant flowers held close to the psuedobulb and arising from the sheaths at the base of a newly forming psuedobulb on a subsessile, to 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia south to Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad, Brazil, Venezuela and the Guineas.

Synonyms Camaridium affine Schlechter 1922; Camaridium amazonicum Schltr. 1925; Camaridium cryptopodanthum Barb. Rodr. 1907; Camaridium lutescens (Scheidw.) Rchb.f. 1863; *Camaridium ochroleucum Lindley 1824; Cymbidium ochroleucum Lindley 1833; Maxillaria hoehneana P.F.Hunt 1965; Maxillaria lutescens Scheidw. 1839; Ornithidium album Hooker 1834; Ornithidium fragrans Rolfe 1894

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 552 Dodson 1982; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 096 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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