Maxillaria chartacifolia Ames & C.Schweinf. 1930 Photo courtesy of Daniel Jimenez G. in Costa Rica

Common Name The Paper-Like Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 50 to 1700 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a rhizome terminating into a short, stout stem enveloped by a fan-shaped, flat cluster of foliar, conduplicate sheaths carrying, many, narrowly lanceolate, acute, articulate, conduplicate below into the base leaves with a prominently raised mid-vein that blooms in the summer on a series of single flowered, to 4" [to 10 cm] long, inflorescence enveloped by several, close, flattened, acuminate, green, speckled brown bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 148 Dodson 1980; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991;Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1340 Atwood 1993; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 097 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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