Maxillaria brevifolia (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1863 Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name The Short Leafed Maxillaria

Flower Size

Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador Peru and Bolivia at elevations of 1770 to 3000 meters as a medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with erect to repent stems enveloped completely by imbricate, tubular leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying many all along the stem, distichous, ellipitc, acute, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the spring on single, flowered short inflorescence arising from the leaf axils

The orchid in the photo was photographed in situ in the Quebrada Honda, Valle de Sibundoy in extreme southern Colombia

Synonyms *Camaridium brevifolium Lindl. 1845; Maxillariella brevifolia (Lindl.) M.A.Blanco & Carnevali 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten III Ecuador Schlechter 1921 as Camaridium longum; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002

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