Maxillaria camaridii Rchb.f 1863
Plant and Flowers Photo by © Milan Vagner
Flowering plant ensitu in MexicoPhoto courtesy of Noble Bashor
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Common Name The Camaridium Maxillaria
Flower Size to 2 1/2" [to 6 cm]
A tropical wet forest, ascending, medium to large sized, warm to hot growing epiphyte with prominent bifoliate pseudobulbs and axillary growths found at 200-1200 meters with an elongate rhizome encased in distichous, imbricating, scarious sheaths which when in active growth carry distichous, conduplicate, imbricating, foliaceous leaf sheaths with elliptic, compressed pseudobulbs that are borne at intervals along the rhizome, carrying linear-ligulate, bilobed leaf that is conduplicate at the base which blooms from the winter through spring with showy, very short-lived, fragrant flowers held close to the pseudobulb and arising from the sheaths at the base of a newly forming pseudobulb on a subsessile, to 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence and is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia south to Peru, Bolivia, Trinidad, Brazil, Venezuela and the Guineas.
Synonyms Camaridium affine Schlechter 1922; Camaridium amazonicum Schltr.1925; Camaridium cryptopodanthum Barb. Rodr. 1907; Camaridium lutescens (Scheidw.) Rchb.f. 1863; Camaridium ochroleucum Lindley 1824; Cymbidium ochroleucum Lindley 1833; Maxillaria hoehneana P.F.Hunt 1965; Maxillaria lutescens Scheidw. 1839; Ornithidium album Hooker 1834; Ornithidium fragrans Rolfe 1894
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 72. Panama Schlechter 1922 as Camaridium affine; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium amazonicum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium ochroleucum; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 552 Dodson 1982; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 8 1993 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 096 Bennett & Christenson 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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