Maxillaria lankesteri Ames 1924Photos courtesy of Eric Hunt

Plant and Flowers Photos courtesy of Daniel Jimenez

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

Part shadeWarm TO HotFall

Common Name Lankester's Maxillaria [American Biotanist in Costa Rica early 1900's]

Flower Size 1/2" to 1" [1.25 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane rainforests as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte occuring at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters with 3.2" [8 cm ] between each, cylindric to slightly tapered pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 foliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous to fleshy, sessile, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall in situ.

Synonyms Maxillaria bilobulata Senghas 1993; Ornithidium aurantiacum Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 241. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium aurantiacum; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006;

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