Maxillaria chrysantha Barb. Rodr. 1871 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

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Common Name The Golden Yellow Flowered Maxillaria

Flower Size to 2" [5" cm]

From southern Brazil, it occurs at altitudes of around 1400 meters and is a robust, medium sized, cold to warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome enveloped with dry, stringy sheaths, ovoid-conical, slightly compressed, ribbed pseudobulbs that carry two apical, erect, linear-lanceolate, acute leaves that are attenuate below into the pseudo-petiole and blooms in the winter in Brazil on a basal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by imbricating, acuminate sheaths with the flowers having a sweet fragrance.

Synonyms Brasiliorchis chrysantha (Barb.Rodr.) R.B.Singer, S.Koehler & Carnevali 2007; Maxillaria chrysantha var curtifolia Barb. Rodr. 1877; Maxillaria chrysantha var macrobulbosa Barb Rodr. 1877; Maxillaria chrysantha var pallidiflora Hoehne 1952; Maxillaria macrobulbosa Barb. Rod. 1882; Maxillaria serotina Barb. Rodr. 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953;

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