Maxillaria hematoglossa A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845

Side View of Flower Photo by © Gerry Sinclair

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Rod Rice

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Common Name The Blood Red Lipped Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in deciduous forests at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte that is often confused with Maxillaria cuccullata but differs in the yellow striping and spots. The plant has clustered, ovoid, strongly compressed, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, deciduous, apical, slender, plicate, dorsally carinate, apically emarginate and rounded, conduplicate below into the base leaf and blooms on a basal, erect, 5 1/4" " [13 cm] long inflorescence that arises on a new growth and is completely enveloped by inflated, tubular bracts and carries a single flower that occurs from spring through fall.

Cited as a synonym of Maxillaria cucullata but I will leave it separate until more information is available.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing ok/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 857 Dodson 1983 drawing fide

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