Maxillaria elegantula Rolfe 1898 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Graceful Maxillaria

Flower Size

A medium sized, hot to cool growing species with a creeping rhizome from Peru and Ecuador that is found at elevations of 400-2550 meters with narrowly ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by several, large, distichous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, petiolate, oblong-elliptic, chartaceous, acute leaf with the petiole compressed and has a lateral to erect, to 10" [25 cm] long, basal inflorescence that has a single, large, showy flower that is held amid or above the leaves.

Synonyms Maxillaria dichroma Rolfe 1898

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI;

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