Maxillaria angustissima Ames, F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934 Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

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Common Name The Narrowest Maxillaria [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Southern Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane rainforests at elevations of 900 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a pendant rhizome giving rise to hidden pseudobulbs envelopd by leaf-bearing rhizome sheaths and carrying a single, apical,, erect, elongate, narrowly linear, attenuate at both ends leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on a lateral, from the rhizome axils, .4 to 1.2" [1 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a subequal, acute floral bract.

Synonyms Maxillaria acutifolia Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;