Maxillaria anceps Ames & C. Schweinf. 1930 Photos courtesy of Alan Gregg and the Swansea Botanical Complex UK ©

Common Name The Double-Edged Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found from Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Chiapas States of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet forests on tree trunks and larger branches at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome completely enveloped by scarious, imbricating sheaths and giving rise to laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally ridged, ovate pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricating, scarious, leaf-less sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-ligulate, obliquely retuse apically and conduplicate below into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on basal, through the leafless sheath, 2" [5 cm] long, single, flowered inflorescence arising on the newest mature pseudobulb and carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Camaridium tuerckheimii Schltr. 1912; Maxillaria nagelii L.O.Williams ex Correl 1948; Maxillariella anceps (Ames & C. Schweinf.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007; Maxillariella tuerckheimii (Schltr.) M.A.Blanco & Carnevali 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 842 Dodson 1983; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1335 Atwood 1989; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Lankesteriana 7(3): 528. 2007 as Maxillariella anceps; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1045 Hagsater & Soto 2008

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