Maxillaria longissima Lindl. 1846 Photo courtesy of Weyman Bussey, plant grown by Jim Hamilton

Flower and plant Photo by David P. Banks, Australia copyrighted ©

Plant and Flowers in situ Ecuador Photo by Lourens Grobler

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Common Name The Longest Petal Maxillaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador at elevations around 1350 to 2600 meters and as such is a medium sized, warm to cool growing, bracteated, unifoliate epiphyte with the pseudobulb enveloped by leaf sheaths that higher up carry linear-lanceolate leaves and a single, apical, linear-lanceolate leaf that blooms on a longer, basal, bracteate, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly maturing pseudobulb holding the flowers amid or above the leaves.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; AOS Bulletin Vol 29 No 2 1960 photo; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good

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