Maxillaria densa Lindl. 1835 Photo courtesy of Dalton Holland Baptista
Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding
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Common Name The Crowded Maxillaria
Flower Size 1/2" to 3/4" [1.8 to 2 cm]
Found in Mexico, Belize, El SAlvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua as well as Colombia as a medium sized, unifoliate, epiphytic species found on trees in damp woods at lower elevations and cloud forests, or as a terrestrial in pine forests at elevations up to 2500 meters with an elongate rhizome that has congested or spread out, elliptic-oblong to ovate-oblong pseudobulbs subtended by 2 scarious sheaths and an apical, single, linear-oblong, obliquely retuse leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a short, single, fragrant flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that occurs in clusters that do not fully, or just emerge from the bracts on the developing stem of the next psuedobulb.
Synonyms Ornithidium densum (Lindl.) Rchb. f. 1855; Maxillaria glomerata Gal. 1840
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 850 Dodson 1983; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 61 Hagsater & Salazar 1990; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;
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