Maxillaria aggregata (Kunth) Lindl. 1832

Photo by © Alex Reynolds and the ORCHIDS of MAQUIPUCUNA Website

Common Name The Clustered Maxillaria

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in cool, wet, cloud and wind-swept forests at elevations of 900 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial often on steep slopes with a creeping, elongate rhizome giving rise to ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped by nummerous, stiff, imbricating, distichous, linear-lanceolate, acute, blue green leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, fasciculate, sessile, single flowered inflorescence with strongly campanulate flowers that open yellow and become pink over time.

Synonyms Dendrobium aggregatum Kunth 1816; Laricorchis aggregata (Kunth) Szlach.2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854 as Ornithidium aggregatum; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 393 Dodson 1980 drawing ok no 2 lobed lip apex; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0250 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing good; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 686 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok;

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