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Caularthron bilamellatum is a species in the genus Caularthron.
Description[]
Plants bloom from late winter to spring with several 3.75 cm wide flowers. Flowers are fragrant. Flowers are self pollinating.
Distribution[]
Plants are found in the dry tropical forest of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Trinidad & Tobago, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 0 to 700 meters
Culture[]
Plants should be grown in warm temperature with bright light. Water about twice a week in the summer and reduce to once a week as winter approaches. Plants can be grown in a well drain coarse mixture of bark and perlite or mounted.
Naming[]
Common Name: The Two-Ledged Caularthrom
Synonyms[]
- Caularthron bivalvatulum [Schlechter] Jones 1974
- Diacrium bigibberosum (Rchb. f.) Hemsl. 1883
- Diacrium bilamellatum (Rchb. f.) Hemsl. 1883
- Diacrium bilamellatum var reichenbachianum Schlechter 1922
- Diacrium bivalvatulum Schltr. 1923
- Diacrium ulmeckei Kraenzlin 1927
- Diacrium venezuelanum Schltr. 1919
- Epidendrum bigibberosum Rchb. f. 1862
- *Epidendrum bilamellatum Rchb. f. 1862