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Orchid Species: Dichaea graminoides

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dichaea graminoides is an orchid species identified by (Sw.) Lindl. in 1833.
Genus
Dichaea (Dich.)
Grex
graminoides
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
(Sw.) Lindl.
Year
1833
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ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Leewards, Trinidad and Tobago, the Netherland Antilles, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru and Brazil in cloud forests at elevations of 650 to 1900 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with patent to erect stems carrying distichous, alternate, articulate to the imbricating sheaths, linear, conspicuously apiculate, minutely ciliate towards the apex leaves that blooms in the spring, summer and fall on axillary, .8 to 1.4 [2 to 3.5 cm] long, very thin, single flowered inflorescence with a glabrous ovary and capsule and carrying mostly white, campanulate flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Dichaea Dich graminea 1864 Griseb.
Add+ Dichaeopsis Dichaeopsis graminoides 1918 (Sw.) Schltr.
Add+ Cymbidium Cym graminoides 1799 (Sw.) Sw.
Add+ Epidendrum Epi graminoides 1788 Sw.
Add+ Isochilus Iso graminoides 1826 (Sw.) Hook.
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