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Orchid Species: Ornithidium album

Kew currently accepted name is Maxillaria camaridii

Ornithidium album is an orchid species identified by Hook. in 1834. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria camaridii.
Genus
Ornithidium (Otm.)
Grex
album
Parents
Species
Author
Hook.
Year
1834
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ORIGIN: 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.

DESCRIPTION: 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.

FLOWER SIZE: To 2 1/2 inches [to 6 cm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Maxillaria Max camaridii 1863 Rchb.f.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd affine 1922 Schltr.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd ochroleucum 1824 Lindl.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd amazonicum 1925 Schltr.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd cyrtopodanthum 1907 Barb.Rodr.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd lutescens 1863 (Scheidw.) Rchb.f. in W.G.Walpers
Add+ Cymbidium Cym ochroleucum 1833 (Lindl.) Lindl.
Add+ Maxillaria Max hoehneana 1965 P.F.Hunt
Add+ Maxillaria Max lutescens 1839 Scheidw.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Cmd. ochroleucum 'Sue G' (2010)
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