(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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(Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
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Distribution
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Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam, and prob- ably other adjacent territory.
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Specimen
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CANAL ZONE: Rio Pedro Miguel, near Paraiso, Standley 29988. PANAMA: hills east of Panama City, sea level, Powell 7; Rio Tecumen, Standley 29413; Juan Diaz, sea level, Cope s.n.; Cerro Campana, vic. Campana, 2000 ft., D. Allen 5087; San Jose Island, Perlas Archipelago, Harlow 58, Johnston 206, 1403. CoCLE: hills south of El Valle de Anton, 800 m., Allen 2667.
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Note
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A common and attractive species, widely distributed throughout the lowlands of our area. The flowers are produced usually in pairs in several successive flower- ings lasting but a single day in each instance. The fragrance is reminiscent of that of Narcissus.
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Species
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MAXILLARIA CAMARIDII Rchb. f.
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PlaceOfPublication
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Hamb. Gartenzeit. 19:547. 1863.
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Synonym
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Camaridium ochroleucum Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 10: t. 844. 1824, non Maxillaria ochroleuca Lodd. ex Lindl. Cymbidium ochroleucum Lindl., Gen. & Spec. Orch. Pl. 168. 1833. Ornithidium album Hook. in Bot. Mag. t. 3306. 1834, non Maxillaria alba (Hook.) Lindl. Camaridium affine Schltr. in Fedde Rep. Sp. Nov. Beih. 17:72. 1922.
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Description
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Epiphytic herbs with elongate, complanate-cylindric, pendulous stems, the lower portions with more or less approximate, elliptic, ancipitous, diphyllous pseudobulbs 3-7 cm. long and 1.5-3 cm. wide inserted at an acute angle, those toward the apex produced at more distant intervals; the internodes and the bases of the pseudobulbs enveloped in the persistent, chartaceous, brown, imbricating bases of the obtuse, foliaceous bracts. Leaves subcoriaceous, linear-lanceolate, obtuse, retuse, or unequally 2-lobed at the apex, 15-30 cm. long and 12-18 mm. wide, the conduplicate bases contracted into very short petioles. Inflorescences short 1-flowered scapes 4-5 cm. long, usually produced in successive pairs from the bract axils of the flush of new growth, each plant thus flowering 3 or 4 times during a given season. Flowers very fragrant, relatively large and conspicuous. Sepals subequal, free, widely spreading, somewhat concave, pure white, elliptic- oblanceolate, acute, 2.5-3.5 cm. long and 1.0-1.4 cm. wide, the laterals adnate at the base to the short column foot, forming an inconspicuous rounded mentum. Petals subequal to the sepals, widely spreading, somewhat concave, pure white, elliptic-oblanceolate, acute, 2.2-3 cm. long and 9-10 mm. wide. Lip white on the outer surface, rich yellow within, with reddish brown or reddish purple transverse lines, conspicuously 3-lobed, 10-12 mm. long and 10-12 mm. wide when spread out, contracted at the base and articulated with the foot of the column, the lateral lobes erect, rounded, the anterior margins obtuse to acute, the mid-lobe acute to suborbicular, more or less canaliculate to spreading, 2/5 to 1/2 the total length of the lip; disk with a linear-lanceolate, concave, yellow callus, 2/3 to 3/4 the length of the lateral lobes, the obscurely tridenticulate apex of which is fleshy and glabrous, the basal 3/4 densely and conspicuously papillose. Column semi-terete, somewhat arcuate, 6-8 mm. long, pure white, with a reddish brown or deep purple blotch at the base.
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