Maxillaria puncto-striata Rchb. f. 1877 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Another Flower photo by David P. Banks, Australia Copyrighted ©

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Common Name The Dotted and Striped Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Chiapas state of Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, El SAlvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at altitudes of 950 to 2500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid to suborbicular, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by non foliaceous, subulate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, emarginate, apiculate, gradually narrowing below into the indistinctly to shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms spring through summer on one or more from each sheath axil, 4" [10 cm] long, terete inflorescence with a cucullate, acute, floral bract and stinky scented flowers.

Part of the M cucculata group which includes, M meleagris; M obscura, M praestans, M punctostriata and M cedralensis

Synonyms Maxillaria rubrilabia Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , as M cuculataIPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 236. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as M rubrilabia; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Icones Orchidacearum fascile 10 plate 1050 Hagsater & Soto 2008 drawing fide

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