Dichaea intermedia Ames & Correll 1943 SECTION Dichaea

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Common Name or Meaning The In Between Dichaea

Flower Size

Found from Mexico to Guatemala on the Gulf of Mexico side in mountane rainforests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a medium to large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte that is a natural hybrid between D trichocarpa and D squarrosa with fleshy, thickened, linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate to tapering and long apiculate or obtuse apiculate leaves that blooms on an axillary, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Guatemala Vol 2 Ames and Correll 1953 drawing ok; Orchids of Mexico Hagsater, Soto, Salazar, Jimenez, Lopez and Dressler 2005; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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