Maxillaria consanguinea Klotzsch 1853
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista
Common Name The Similar Maxillaria
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Part of the M picta group but differs in its stronger colors. It is found in Rio, Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais States in Brazil as a pendulous, warm to cool growing epiphyte and lithophyte with a creeping rhizome with clustered , ovoid-pyriform, slightly elongated, compressed, shiny, sulcate with age pseudobulbs carrying 1 or 2, apical, fleshy-coriaceous, narrolwy ligulate, acute, attenuate or distinctly petiolate below leaves that blooms in the summer on many, basal, single flowered, to 6 1/5" [16 cm] long inflorescence with lanceolate acute floral bracts and very odiferous, fleshy flowers.
Synonyms Brasiliorchis consanguinea (Klotzsch) R.B.Singer, S.Koehler & Carnevali 2007; Maxillaria consanguinea f pallida Hoehne 1949; Maxillaria consanguinea var major Hoehne 1952; Maxillaria picta var brunnea Reichenbach f.; Maxillaria serotina Hoehne non Barb. Rodr. 1930
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953;
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