Maxillaria luteo-alba Lindl. 1846

Specimen plant Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo courtesy of David Morris at Clackamas Orchids

To and EARLY

Common Name The Yellow and White Maxillaria

Flower Size to more than 4" [to more than 10 cm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela at 100 to 1800 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing, epiphytic species that has clustered, ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, dark brown pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, petiolate, rigid, suberect, obtuse leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a erect or ascending, 3 1/2 to 6" [8.75 to 15 cm] long, inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, with faintly fragrant, long-lasting, variable colored flowers and several papery, tubular bracts.

Synonyms Maxillaria luteo-grandiflora hort. 1871; Maxillaria turneri G.Nicholson 1885

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Bonplandia 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 drawing; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 2 2002 photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 6 2004 photo;

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