Maxillaria dendrobioides (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1940

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Flowers Photo courtesy of David Morris at Clackamas Orchids

Flower Closeup en situ Costa Rica

Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica Photo courtesy of Wilfried Löderbusch

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Common Name The Dendrobium-Like Maxillaria

Flower Size .15" [4 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and western Panama as a medium sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte that has a epidendrum vegatative look and is found at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters with an erect, sometimes branching stem carrying many, densely distichous, elliptic to lanceolate, coriaceous, unequally bilobulate apically, basally clasping leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence mostly concealed by subulate floral bracts.

Synonyms *Camaridium dendrobioides Schltr. 1918; Camaridium jimenezii Schltr. 1918; Camaridium simile Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;

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