Maxillaria aurorae D.E.Benn. & Christenson 1995

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Common Name Aurora's Maxillaria [Mrs. Bennett, Orchid Enthusiast in Peru Current]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Huanuco Peru on rocky slopews in montane forests at elevations around 320 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or occasional terrrestrial with clustered, smooth, ovoid-pyriform, compressed pseudobulbs partially enveloped by several distichous, imbricating, scarious bracts and carrying a single [or rarely 2], oblong-lanceolate, stiff, acute, dark green leaf that narrows below into a long conduplicate petiole and blooms winter and spring in the northern hemisphere on an erect, basal, 4 to 5" [10 to 12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseduobulb and enveloped basally by 3 tubular, acuminate bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 308 Bennett and Christenson 1995