Maxillaria discolor [Lodd. ex Lindley] Rchb.f 1861 Photo by © Julian Kenny

Another Flower Photo by © Ecuagenera Orchid Website

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Common Name The Different Colored Maxillaria

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

This medium sized, caespitose, epiphytic species with prominent, unifoliate, oblong-elliptic, strongly compressed, shiny pseudobulbs and 2, imbricate leaf axils carrying a single, lorate, obliquely bilobed, coriaceous leaf is from Belize, Nicaragua, Trinidad, French Guiana, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil in wet montane forests and is found at altitudes of 200-1600 meters where it blooms in the spring, summer and fall with solitary flowers opening in succession on a very short, axillary inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb that is held close to the leaf axil.

Synonyms Dicrypta bicolor Paxt. 1868; *Dicrypta discolor Lodd. ex Lindl. 1839;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Orchids of Venezuela ; An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide to the 1st photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 395 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 851 Dodson 1983 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Orchids of Bolivia plate 0352 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 099 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Heterotaxis discolor photo maybe;

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