Maxillaria arbuscula (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1856 Photo by Patricia Harding

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt plant Grown by Gerardus H. Staal.

Plant Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name The Diminutive Maxillaria

Flower Size 3/8" [1 cm]

Found in Peru and Ecuador from elevations around 1500 to 3100 meters as a warm to cold growing, miniature terrestrial with slender, imbricating, branching stems with distichous, linear-ligulate leaves that are unequally bilobed apically and arranged in a ladder-like formation that blooms on an axillary inflorescence with almost globose flowers held close to the leaf axils at any time of the year.

Synonyms *Camaridium arbuscula Lindl. ?; Fernandezia punctata Ruiz & Pav. 1798; Maxillaria henrici-gustavi Senghas 1993; Maxillariella arbuscula (Lindl.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002;

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