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Camaridium dichotomum is an orchid species identified by Schltr. in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria dichotoma.
ORIGIN: Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador and Peru in premontane and lower montane forests at elevations of 500 to 1700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with straggly, pendent to decumbent stems with several successive shoots only anchored at the base and terminated by an ovoid, compressed pseudobulb subtended in youth by 1 to 3 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical and along the rhizome, elliptic, acute to acuminate, abruptly narrowing to form a slender petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer, fall, winter and early spring on several, lateral, short to .6 [1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the axils on a developing growth and subtended by a cucullate, acute to subulate floral bract and carries color variable flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1.6 inches [4 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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