Maxillaria chlorantha Lindl. 1837 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Yellow Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and N Brazil in openings of dense cloud forests at elevations around 1100 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with strongly compressed, finely grooved pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths that become deciduous with age and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblong, strongly assymetrical apically, conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms on several, axillary, 3.6" [9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by pale green, lightly inflated sheaths.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976