Maxillaria camaridii Rchb.f.
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Variable epiphytes with ascending, branched, elongate rhizomes, concealed by distichous, imbricate, subfoliaceous bracts, bearing compressed, ellipsoid pseudobulbs 3-7 cm long, the distance between pseudobulbs >5 cm. Leaves 1 or 2 at apex of pseudobulb, linear-ligulate, obliquely bilobed, to 40 X 1.5 cm. Inflorescences solitary flowers in axils of bracts associated with growth flushes. Flowers ephemeral, showy, stark white with yellow in lip; sepals subsimilar, elliptic-lanceolate, acute, to 3.5 X 1 cm, the lateral sepals oblique; petals subequal to sepals, obliquely oblanceolate, acute; lip 3-lobed, suborbicular in outline, to 1.8 cm long, the lateral lobes erect, obovate, rounded, the midlobe suborbicular, the callus basal, tuberculate; column subarcuate, to 1.2 cm long, with short foot.