Maxillaria bradei Schltr. ex Hoehne 1936 Photo courtesy of Mauro Peixoto Copyrighted and his Brazilian Plants Website

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Common Name Brade's Maxillaria [Brazilian Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]

Found in Panama and Brazil in the Atlantic forest in Southeast region on tree trunks, from sea level to 1200 meters as a hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial in semi-shade with oblong, compressed psuedobulbs enveloped basally by several imbricating sheaths with the uppermost leaf-bearing and carrying a single apical, linear-lanceolate, acute leaf that is attenuate into the pseudopetiole and blooms in the spring on 2, 6 to 7" [15 to 17.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the leaf bearing sheaths, enveloped completely by imbricating, loose, acuminate bracts and holding the flower just at leaf height.

Synonyms Maxillaria setigera Kraenzel. 1911

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