Maxillaria ecuadorensis Schltr. 1921 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Ensitu Ecuador Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt

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Common Name The Ecuadorian Maxillaria

Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm] wide

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet montane cloud forests as a small sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep slopes occuring in cloud forests at elevations of 500 to 2700 meters with flattened pseudobulbs enveloped completely by disticous, scarious sheaths with 2 to 3 being leaf bearing as narrowly elliptic, acute leaves narrowing basally into the conduplicate petiole with that blooms in the summer and fall ensitu on an erect, 12" [30 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by inflated, acute bracts and holding the flower at mid leaf.

Synonyms Maxillaria fractiflexa Rchb. f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 396 Dodson 1980; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002;

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