Maxillaria acuminata Lindl. 1845 Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website

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Plant and Flowers Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Gradually Tapering Point Maxillaria

Flower Size 1 1/4" [2.85cm]

Found from Mexico south to Peru in wet montane rainforests at elevations of 450 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate, creeping rhizome enveloped by imbricating, non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying well spaced, ovate, flattened pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 2 to 3, distichous, imbricating foliaceous sheaths and carrying apically 2 narrowly oblong, membranaceous leaves that are obtuse apically and blooms on 2 to 5, basal, 3/5" [1.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by distichous sheaths blooming at any time in location.

Synonyms Lycaste acuminata [Lindley] Rchb.f 1855; Rhetinantha acuminata (Lindl.) M.A. Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 529 Dodson 1989; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002;