Maxillaria molitor Rchb. f. 1887
Another Flower Photos by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website
Plant grown by Marius Wasbauer, Photo courtesy of Dale and Deni Borders
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Common Name or Meaning
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
A medium sized, fall blooming, cool to cold growing epiphytic or terrestrial species on steep embankments found in Ecuador in wet montane forests at elevations of 1900 to 3200 meters with a short rhizome carrying elliptic, flattened psudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating, distichous sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous, oblong leaf that narrows below into a conduplicate petiole and blooms in the spring through fall on an erect, basal, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature psedobulb and enveloped completely by imbricating, tubublar, acuminate sheaths.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 456 Dodson 1982; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002;
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