Maxillaria hagsateriana Soto Arenas 1992

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Common Name Hagsater's Maxillaria [Mexican Botanist Current]

Flower Size .25" [7.5 mm]

Found Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in montane moist to wet forests at elevations of 1125 to 2700 meters as a giant sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect to hanging stems enveloped by imbricate, conduplicate, disitichous, scarious sheaths giving rise at intervals, oblong-ovate, getting smaller towards the apex, flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single,a pical, erect, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute, obliquely retuse, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the summer to mid fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence produced in loose groups among the sheaths of the stem and arise when the pseudobulbsa are fully matured

Synonyms Camaridium hagsaterianum (Soto Arenas) M.A.Blanco 2007; Ornithidium hagsaterianum (Soto Arenas) Senghas 2001

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Orchidacearum 5-6 Plate 616 Hagsater & Soto 2002 drawing ok;

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