Maxillaria quelchii Rolfe 1901 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Quelche Maxillaria [Indian Tribe in Central Brazil]

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil in cloud forests, open forests and on tepui summits at elevations of 400 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a repent and ascending rhizome carrying compressed, narrowly oblong pseudobulbs almost completely enveloped by imbricate, leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, oblong or oblanceolate, acute to almost obtuse, attenuate basally leaf that blooms on axillary, 3.2" [8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by brown-green somewhat inflated bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing hmm; Flora de Venezuela Vol XV Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok

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