Maxillaria rufescens Lindley 1835 sect. Rufescens Christenson 2013 TYPE for sect.
Photo by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by Patricia Harding
Photo by Jean Claude George
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Common Name The Light Fox-Red Maxillaria
Flower Size up to 1 1/4" [3 to 4 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Belize, Leewards, Trinidad & Tobago, French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Brazil found on trees in wet tropical dense forests at elevations around 200 to 2000 meters as a wide ranging, small to medium sized, hot to cool growing, unifoliate, bracteate, pseudobulbous epiphyte with proximate, cylindrical to ellipsoidal, compressed, 4 angled pseudobulbs subtended by several, imbricate, distichous, membraneous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, sessile or shortly petiolate, narrowly elliptic, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, coriaceous, acute leaf that blooms at any time of the year from a basal, erect, 1 to 2" [ 2.2 to 5cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from a mature pseudobulb that carries a campanulate, fragrant, vanila scented flower that is held a mid leaf height.
A fairly common easier growing species requiring moderate shade, humid conditions and regular waterings.
Synonyms Camaridium rugosum (Scheidw.) Hoehne 1947; Maxillaria abelei Schltr. 1921; Maxillaria articulata Klotsch 1853; Maxillaria fuscata Hort not Klotsch 1836 ; Maxillaria rufescens var. flavida Rchb. f. 1869; Maxillaria rufescens var. florida Rchb. f. 1869; Maxillaria rufescens var. flavida Rchb.f 1869; Maxillaria rufescens var. minor Fawc. & Rendle 1910; Maxillaria rugosa Scheidw. 1843; Maxillaria vanillodora Rchb.f 1857; Mormolyca rufescens (Lindl.) M.A.Blanco 2007; Xanthoxerampellia rufescens (Lindl.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1869 drawing fide; Refugium Botanicum Reichenbach 1872 drawing fide; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Maxillaria rufescens var flavida; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Maxillaria rufescens var minor; Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921 as M abelei; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 140. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:94 Schlechter 1924; Beitrage Zur Orchideenkunde Von Colombia 27:144 Schlechter 1924; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium rugosum; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as M rufescens var flavida drawing fide; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 partial see Ramiro 2000 drawing/photo good; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as M rufescens var flavidadrawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 partial see Ramiro 2000 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 162 Dodson 1980 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 557 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1047 Dodson 1984 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 as subgen Camaridium; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 113 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; Venezuela; Paraiso de Orquideas Romero 1997 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 2 2002 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; An Illustrated Field Guide to the Orchids of the Yotoco Forest Reserve Colombia Kolanowska, Escobar, Sanchez & Szlachetko 2011 drawing/photo fide; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 as Mormolyca rufescens photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016 as Mormolyca rufescens; AOS Bulletin Vol 87 #1 2018 drawing fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Xanthoxerampellia rufescens;
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