Maxillaria pachyacron Schltr. 1911

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

THROUGH EARLY

Common Name The Narrowest Maxillaria [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 1900 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with narrowly to broadly ovoid pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-ovate to linear, acute, often recurved apex, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer through early spring on a basal, 10" [25 cm] long, wiry inflorescence enveloped by 4 to 5 acute, to obtuse, involute bracts. Often stated as a synonym of M reichenheimiana but differs in the shorter mentum around the shorter column foot besides the thinner, non white spotted leaves.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 140. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 234. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1232 Hamer 1985 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1357 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999; ; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 photo fide;

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