Home Flora of Panama (WFO)
Name Search
Markup OCR Documents
Maxillaria camaridii Rchb. f. Search in The Plant ListSearch in IPNISearch in Australian Plant Name IndexSearch in NYBG Virtual HerbariumSearch in Muséum national d'Histoire naturelleSearch in Type Specimen Register of the U.S. National HerbariumSearch in Virtual Herbaria AustriaSearch in JSTOR Plant ScienceSearch in SEINetSearch in African Plants Database at Geneva Botanical GardenAfrican Plants, Senckenberg Photo GallerySearch in Flora do Brasil 2020Search in Reflora - Virtual HerbariumSearch in Living Collections Decrease font Increase font Restore font
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
 

Flora Data (Last Modified On 1/20/2013)
Distribution Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad, British Guiana, Surinam, and prob- ably other adjacent territory.
Specimen 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.
Note 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.
Species MAXILLARIA CAMARIDII Rchb. f.
PlaceOfPublication Hamb. Gartenzeit. 19:547. 1863.
Synonym 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.
Description 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.
 
 
© 2024 Missouri Botanical Garden - 4344 Shaw Boulevard - Saint Louis, Missouri 63110