Maxillaria palmifolia (Sw.) Lindl. 1832 Photo by © Dr Sam P Mathew and the Tropical Botanic Garden & Research Institute Trivandrum India

Common Name The Palm-Leaved Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.5 cm [4 cm]

Found in Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago and Guyana as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with clustered, narrowly ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs carryin a single, apical, erect, plicate, broadly lanceolate, acuminate,gradually narrowing below into trhe petiolate base lef that blooms in the winter on a lateral, nutant, slender, to 5"[ 12.5 cm] long, laxly few flowered inflorescence with linear to linear-lanceolate, acuminate, longer than the ovaries floral bracts and carrying, fragrant, showy flowers.

Synonyms Colax palmifolius (Sw.) Lindl. ex Spreng. 1826; Dendrobium palmifolium (Sw.) Sw. 1799; Epidendrum palmifolium Sw. 1788; Maxillaria decolor Lindl. 1832; Pentulops discolor Raf. 1838; Xylobium decolor (Lindl.) G.Nicholson 1887; Xylobium palmifolium (Sw.) Fawc. 1893

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Xylobium palmifolium; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 as Xylobium palmifolium drawing ok; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960 as Xylobium palmifolium; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Xylobium palmifolium; Orchidaceae Antillane Nir 2000 as Xylobium palmifolium;

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