Maxillaria dendrobioides (Schltr.) L.O. Williams 1940
Photos by © Walter Schug
Photo by David Morris
Flower Closeup in situ Costa Rica
Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica
Photo by Wilfried Löderbusch
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Common Name The Dendrobium-Like Maxillaria
Flower Size .15" [4 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and western Panama at elevations of 800 to 2400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte that has an Epidendrum-like vegatative look with an erect, sometimes branching stem carrying many, densely distichous, elliptic to lanceolate, coriaceous, unequally bilobulate apically, basally clasping leaf that blooms at any time of the year on a .4 to 1" [1 to 2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence mostly concealed by subulate floral bracts.
Synonyms Adamanthus dendrobioides (Schltr.) Szlach. 2007 publ. 2006; *Camaridium dendrobioides Schltr. 1918; Camaridium jimenezii Schltr. 1918; Camaridium simile Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 57. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium jimenezii; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 142. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium dendrobioides; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 238. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium dendrobioides; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 239. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium simile; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 photo fide; Lankesteriana 19(1) 31-55 2019 as Camaridium dendrobioides photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium dendrobioides photo fide
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