Maxillaria cerifera Barb. Rodr. 1877 Photo by Oliver Lenhard Copyrighted ©

Plant en situ in Brazil Photo by Jay Pfahl Copyrighted ©

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Common Name The Waxy Maxillaria

Flower Size to about 1/2" [to about 1.5 cm]

Found in Brazil as a miniature to small sized, cool to hot growing bifoliate species with ovoid to compressed, vertically rugose pseudobulbs that have a small, evanescent, basal and carries 2 apical, erect, linear-ligulares, canoe-shaped leaves that are attenuate below into the pseudo-petiole that blooms on a erect, 1 3/4" [4.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb and carrying fragrant flowers held above the leaves and occuring in the fall.

Synonyms Maxillaria divaricata [Barb Rodr. Cogn 1904; Maxillaria nervosa Rolfe 1895; Ornithidium ceriferum (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr. 1881; Ornithidium divaricatum Barb. Rodr. 1882; Rhetinantha cerifera (Barb. Rodr.) M.A. Blanco 2007

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