Maxillaria microphyton Schltr. 1910

Plant and Flower Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Common Name The Dwarf Maxillaria

Flower Size .2" [5.5 mm]

Found in Costa Rica and Western Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a mat forming, warm to cool growing epiphyte often on shrubs or terrestrial beneath them with an erect to pendant, cane-like stem with 3" [7.5 cm] between each conic to suborbicular, sulcate pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thin, elliptic, rounded to emarginate, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising on both mature and immature foliaceous and non-foliaceous sheaths.

Synonyms Maxillaria pallidiflava (Schltr.) Senghas 1993; Ornithidium pallidiflavum Schltr. 1923; Ornithidium parvulum Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 143. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 242. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 305. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 59. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium parvulum; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Camaridium microphyton photo ok;

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