Maxillaria costaricensis Schltr. 1923

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Common Name The Costa Rican Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Costa Rica in rain and cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a hot to warm growing epiphyte with 1.2" [3 cm] between each fusiform to cylindric pseudobulb enveloped basally by non-foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thin, linear-lanceolate, obtuse to unequally bilobulate, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a .8" [2 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising with a new growth. Very similar to M variabilis but differs in the narrower leaves, different colored flowers and curled petals instead of recurved.

Synonyms Maxillariella costaricensis (Schltr.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;

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