Maxillaria bolivarensis C.Schweinf. 1962 Photo by © Whitten, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Another Angle Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Bolivar Maxillaria [refers to its being found in the Grand Bolivar nations Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in very wet montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphtye with a short stem giving rise to ovate, flattened pseudobulbs partially enveloped below by 2 well developed leaves and carrying a single, apical, thick, linear, size variable, conduplicate toward below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several imbricating, acuminate bracts.
This species is part of the M aracnites group and is distinguished by the white flowers with relatively short, stiff sepals.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Mus. Leafl. 20: 22. 1962; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 146 Dodson 1980 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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