Maxillaria confusa Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925

Straight On Flower Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Confounded Maxillaria

Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]

Found in Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in pastures and open semi-evergreen forests as a miniature to small sized, hot growing epiphyte at elevations of sealevel to 1450 meters with smooth, compressed, orbicular to elliptic pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious, leafless sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly ellptical to ligulate, with conspicuous white veins, subcoriaceous, retuse, basally conduplicate into the base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall with fragrant flowers on several, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of a mature pseudobulb and enveloped completely by several, imbricating, loose, acuminate bracts.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orchid. 8: 57. 1925; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 847 Dodson 1983; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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