Maxillaria meridensis Lindl. 1846 Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Side View of Flower Photo by © Rebecca Repasky and the Atrium Diversity Information System Website
Common Name or Meaning The Merida Maxillaria [A Town In Venezuela]
Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia wet montane cloud forests as a small sized, hot to cool growing, creeping epiphyte or terrestrial on open embankments at elevations of 400 to 2550 meters with semi-erect, cane-like stems carrying narrow, strap-shaped, alternating leaves that blooms on many, axillary, sessile inflorescence arising on a mature stem with single flowers occuring in the summer
Synonyms Maxillaria longicaulis Schltr. 1929
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing good; Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 157 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1352 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0256 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 as M longicaulis drawing ; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; ; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 photo fide
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