Maxillaria meleagris Lindl. 1844 Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Pink Flower Variety Photo courtesy of David Morris

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Common Name The Spotted Guinea Fowl Maxillaria [refers to the way the flowers hide in the leaves]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

This medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphytic species has been found in rainforests at elevations of 1500 to 2450 meters in Mexico and Guatemala and has clustered, ellipsoid-ovoid to ovoid, compressed psedobulbs enveloped basally by several, distichous, imbricating sheaths and carrying a single apical, linear to linear-ligulate, coriaceous, obtuse leaf that blooms in the spring on an erect,1 1/5" to 3 1/5" [3 to 8 cm] long basal inflorescence that arises from a new growth and has the peduncle enveloped by tubular sheaths and scarious, acute, or acuminate floral bracts with a single flower that is coconut scented and held a mid leaf level.

Synonyms Maxillaria lindeniana A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Maxillaria puncto-striata Rchb. f. 1877

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979;

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