Maxillaria rhombea Lindl. 1840

Another Color Photos by David Morris and Clackmas Orchids

Color Variation Photo courtesy of Noble Bashor

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Patricia Harding

Common Name The Diamond Shaped Maxillaria

Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations around 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with dark green, laterally compressed, wrinkled with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, scarious sheaths and carryimg a single, apical, linear, obtuse and emarginate apically, carinate dorsally, conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the winter on to 2, lateral, single flowered, 4 to 4 3/2" [10 to 12 cm] long, erect inflorescence completely enveloped by several, inflated, scarious bracts.

Synonyms Camaridium rhombeum (Lindl.) M.A.Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide;

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