Maxillaria picta Hook. 1832 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Photo Site

Another Flower Photo courtesy of Oliver Lenhard

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name or Meaning The Painted Maxillaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occaisional lithophyte with erect, ovoid-conical to ovoid-oblong, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, to linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that are attenuate into the petiole below and blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, erect, single flowered inflorescence and carrying sometimes fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Brasiliorchis picta (Hook.) R.B.Singer, S.Koehler & Carnevali 2007; Maxillaria hoehnei Schltr. 1921; Maxillaria kreysigii Hoffmanns. ex Regel 1856; Maxillaria leucocheila Hoffmannsegg 1843;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as M hoehnei 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 1 1957 photo; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 4 2007 photo;

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