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Camaridium alatum is an orchid species identified by Lindl. in G.Bentham in 1845. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria avis.
ORIGIN: Found in southwestern Ecuador and Peru in seasonally dry montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2600 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, cold growing epiphyte with 2 growth forms, the first, a short rhizome giving rise to large, ovoid, lightly compressed, deciduous pseudobulbs with roots and carrying 2 apical, oblong ligulate, obtuse, conduplicate at the subpetiolate base leaves and the second, a branching stem with no pseudobulbs and no roots carrying deciduous, foliaceous, oblong-ligulate, acute bracts all along the length with persistent sheathing bracts that blooms in the spring on an axillary, subsessile, .8 [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.8 inches [2 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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