Maxillaria brachybulbon Schltr. 1923 Photo by © Milan Vágner

Common Name The Short-Bulbed Maxillaria

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, French Guiana, Guyana, Ecuador and Northern Brazil in rainforests at elevations of 50 to 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with minute, compressed pseduobulbs enveloped baslly by 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms on an axilalry, 1" [2.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on an immature growth and enveloped completely by 4, tubular, chartaceous, imbricating sheaths.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Fieldiana: Botany, New Series Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae: subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Retana 1999; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002