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Orchid Species: Ornithidium coccineum

Kew currently accepted name is Maxillaria coccinea

Ornithidium coccineum is an orchid species identified by (Jacq.) Salisb. ex R.Br. in W.T.Aiton in 1813. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria coccinea.
Genus
Ornithidium (Otm.)
Grex
coccineum
Parents
Species
Author
(Jacq.) Salisb. ex R.Br. in W.T.Aiton
Year
1813
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ORIGIN: Found in the Dominican Republic, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil in primary forests at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, hot to cool growing solitary leafed epiphytic species with a rhizome enveloped by scarious, overlapping, papery sheaths with ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse leaf that is folded towards the base that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascicle of wiry, 2 1/2 [6.5 cm] long, solitary flowered, lateral to descending inflorescence that arise from the base of the leaves.

FLOWER SIZE: Less than 1 inch [less than 2.5 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 coccinea 1954 (Jacq.) L.O.Williams
Add+ Ornithidium Otm acaule 1843 Hoffmanns.
Add+ Camaridium Cmd coccineum 1947 (Jacq.) Hoehne
Add+ Cymbidium Cym coccineum 1800 (Jacq.) Sw.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Max. coccinea 'Pico' (2018) Max. coccinea 'Lidia' (2018) Max. coccinea 'Deggendorf' (2017) Cmd. coccineum 'Lidia' (2016) Max. coccinea 'Anyara' (2016) Otm. coccineum 'Rachael Hermelyn' (2013) Otm. coccineum 'Superman David' (2013) Otm. coccineum 'Jack's Jodi' (2013) Max. coccinea 'Superman David' (2006) Max. coccinea 'J & L' (1983)
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