Maxillaria mapiriensis (Kraenzl.) L.O.Williams 1942 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name The Mapiri Maxillaria [A town in Bolivia]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in montane and cloud forests at elevations of 450 to 2500 meters as a warm to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with 3.2 to 6" [8 o 15 cm] between each minute pseudobulb carrying coriaceous, rigid when small and softer as the get larger, linear, tridentate apically leaves that blooms in the spring on a short, single flowered inflorescence with fragrant flowers

Synonyms Maxillaria condensata C.Schweinf. 1951; Ornithidium mapiriense Kraenzl. 1928

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Dunsterville & Garay Vol 1 1959 drawing good; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 319 Bennett & Christenson 1995 Drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide

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