Maxillaria discolor [Lodd. ex Lindley] Rchb.f 1861 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, shiney psuedobulbs 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 psuedobulb that is held close to the leaf axil.

Synonyms Dicrypta bicolor Paxt. 1868; *Dicrypta discolor Lodd. ex Lindl. 1839; Dicrypta longifolia Barb. Rodr. 1877; Heterotaxis superflua (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 2002; Maxillaria longifolia (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1904; Maxillaria superflua Rchb. f. 1856; Maxillaria tarumaënsis Hoehne 1947; Pentulops discolor Raf. 1836

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 as M tarumaensis; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 as M tarumaensis; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 395 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 851 Dodson 1983; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 548 Dodson 1989 as Maxillaria taurumaensis; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 099 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 as M tarumaensis; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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