Maxillaria friedrichsthalii Rchb. f. 1852 Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Another flower Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Part shadeWarmTo Hot MOSTLY Springand Summer

Common Name Freidrichsthal's Maxillaria

Flower Size to 1 1/4" [to 3 cm]

Found from Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as a small sized, hot to cool growing, stout, ascending, 2 leafed epiphyte that occurs in wet montane forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters with clustered, elliptic-oblong, slightly compressed, sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious sheaths that become leaf bearing towards the apex and carrying 2 to 3 apical, ligulate, obscurely bilobed apically, conduplicate below into the base leaves and blooms mostly in the spring and summer on a lateral, short to 1 1/2" [3.5 cm], single flowered inflorescence with flowers variable in size and color, arising from the sheath of a mature pseudobulb and is held amid the leaves.

Synonyms Maxillaria turialbae Schltr. 1918; Rhetinantha friedrichsthalii (Rchb. f.) M.A. Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Zeit. (Berlin) 10: 858. 1852; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 140. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 855 Dodson 1983 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1347 Atwood 1993 drawing hmm; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Lankesteriana 7(3): 534. 2007 as Rhetinantha friedrichthalii; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Rhetinantha friedrichsthalii photo fide;

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