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 Guatemala to 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 Maxillariella anceps (Ames & C. Schweinf.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 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;

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