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Ornithidium jamesonii is an orchid species identified by Rchb.f. in 1876. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria jamesonii.
ORIGIN: Found in southern Colombia, Ecuador and Northern Peru at elevations of 1770 to 3000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to large sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a sparsely branched elongate rhizome, totally to mostly enveloopd by close, tubular, marcescent sheaths with a triangular, acute apex, giving rise to a stem carrying distichous, deciduous in the lower portions of the branches, 4 to 5, persistent, held towards the apex, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, sharply acute, upper margins serrulate, cuneate towards the sessile base leaves that blooms in the spring on erect, several, one to few flowered inflorescence arising from the upper leaf axils.
FLOWER SIZE: 3/8 inch [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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