Maxillaria dillonii D.E. Benn. & Christenson 1998 Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name Dillon's Maxillaria

Flower Size 2 2/5" [6 cm]

Found in Peru in wet montane forests at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ellipsoid to ovoid-pyriform, complanate, sulcate with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricating, scarious bracts and carrying a single, apical, elliptic, subacute leaf with a complanate petiole that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, 6 to 7 1/4" [15 to 18 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence completely enveloped by 2 to 5, approximate, infundibuliform sheaths and having a floral bract that is slightly shorter than the ovary..

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 503 Bennett & Christenson 1998