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Orchid Species: Dichaea morrisii

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Dichaea morrisii is an orchid species identified by Fawc. & Rendle in 1910.
Genus
Dichaea (Dich.)
Grex
morrisii
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Fawc. & Rendle
Year
1910
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ORIGIN: Found in Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil in wet montane forests at elevations around 600 to 2500 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Miniature to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with erect to pendant, simple to rarely branched, stiff to flexuous stems completely enveloped by imbricate, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying many, membraneous to subcoriaceous, distichous, oblong to elliptic-oblong to elliptic, oblique, rounded, subacute to mucronate leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an axillary, .25 to .4 [8 to 1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying large for the genus, fleshy flowers.

FLOWER SIZE: 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 muricata 1833 (Sw.) Lindl.
Add+ Dichaea Dich ovatipetala 1923 Schltr.
Add+ Dichaea Dich robusta 1929 Schltr.
Add+ Dichaea Dich verrucosa 1925 Ames & C.Schweinf.
Add+ Dichaeopsis Dichaeopsis morrisii 1920 (Fawc. & Rendle) Schltr. in I.Urban
Add+ Cymbidium Cym muricatum 1799 Sw.
Add+ Dichaea Dich bradeorum 1923 Schltr.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Dich. muricata 'Helen' (1993)
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