Maxillaria aggregata (Kunth) Lindl. 1832

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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 ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 393 Dodson 1980; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 686 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002

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