Maxillaria cryptobulbon Carnevali & J.T. Atwood 1991 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids

Common Name The Hidden Pseudobulb Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in lower montane forests at elevations of 200 to 1700 meters near streams as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with close set, ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped completely by a few imbricate, triangular, acute, inflated, persistent sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, narrowly elliptical, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on 1 to 3, erect, 4" [10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence mostly enveloped by tubular, red to green, acute bracts

CAUTION I am not sure of this determination so please use with caution

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 as M brunnea photo ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 errata = M cryptobulbon; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 photo ok; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo ok

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