Maxillaria moralesii Carnevali & J.T.Atwood 1996 Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website

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Common Name Morales' Maxillaria

Flower Size .8" [2 cm]

Found in Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in lower tropical lowland rainforest at elevations of sealevel to 1350 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with clustered, pale yellow green, elliptic to oblong pseudobulbs enveloped basally by leafless sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, coriaceous, elliptic to lanceolate-elliptic, non-petiolate leaf that blooms in the fall and winter on an erect to spreading, 1/2" [1.25 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with an obovate-elliptic floral bract.

CAUTION< Does not match most references - This species is part of the M rufescens complex and is related to M acutifolia nearly cylindric pseudobulbs and a yellow to green flower with a red stripe on the center of the lip, M hedwigiae with a white to green flower with an orange lip, M dressleriana with ovoid pseudobulbs and brownish maroon flowers and M moralesii with elliptic to ovoid pseudobulbs and a flower with a truncate midlobe of the lip

Synonyms Mormolyca moralesii (Carnevali & J.T.Atwood) M.A.Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Fieldiana Flora Costa Ricensis Family #39 Orchidaceae: Tribe Maxillarieae Atwood & Mora de Retana 1999; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Mormolyca moralesii photo hmm;

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