Maxillaria christobalensis Rchb.f. 1852

Plant and Flowers in situ Peru Photos by Rebecca Repasky and the Atrium Biodiversity Information System Website

Common Name The Christobal Maxillaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Surinam, Fr Guiana, Guyana, Ecuador and Peru in rainforests at elevations of 800 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stout stems enveloped completely by disitichous, closely imbricating, deciduous leaf bearing sheaths and carrying 2 apical, narrowly linear, semiterete, oblique, obtuse apex, ascending leaves that blooms in the fall on a 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Camaridium christobalense (Rchb.f.) Hoehne 1947

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; The Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960;

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