Maxillaria chrysantha Barb. Rodr. 1871 Photo courtesy of Rod Rice and Oasis the Journal

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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. Maxillaria chrysantha is on the left and on the right is a species that is also from Brazil and is often mistaken for it Maxillaria porphyrostele Rchb.f.

Synonyms Maxillaria macrobulbosa Barb. Rod. 1882; Maxillaria serotina Barb. Rodr. 1882

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