Maxillaria crocea Lindl. 1835 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name The Saffron Yellow Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Peru and Brazil at elevations around 2950 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid-cylindric pseudobulb enveloped bsally by 1 or maore pairs of sometimes leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, oblong, acute, gradually narrowing below into the cuneate, stout, laterally compressed, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a 3.4" [8.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped almost completely by several [5] loose, tubular sheaths.

Synonyms Maxillaria lindleyana Schltr. 1921

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970 as M lindleyana