Maxillaria sanderiana Rchb. f. ex Sander 1888

Side View Of Flower Photos by Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Sander's Maxillaria [English Nurseryman 1800's]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru on slopes with decomposing leaf detrius or on trees in wet montane forests at altitudes around 1200 to 2500 meters as a medium sized, robust, caespitose, solitary leafed, cool to cold growing epiphyte, lithophtye or terrestrial with abundant fine roots that form a "bird's nest" and ovoid, subglobose or oblong-ellipsoid pseudobulbs with the base concealed by several pairs of distichous, imbricating, leafless below and leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying a single apical, oblong-elliptic, cuneate, acute, conduplicate below into the subpetiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, lateral, with imbricating bracts that conceal almost all the peduncle, 4" [10cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant, sweet, floral scented flowers which are held below the pseudobulbs base.

Similar to Maxillaria augusta-victoriae, M christensonii, M crispiloba, M colombiana, M dichroma, M × doucetteana, M eburnea, M elegantula, M fletcheriana, M fucata, M grandiflora, M grandis, M irrorata, M lehmannii, M macropoda, and Maxillaria turkeliae

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo fide; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 31 No 8 1962 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orquideologia Vol 12 No 3/4 1977/8; Orquideologia Vol 14 No 1 1979; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 459 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 as subgen Camarisim; 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 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 photo fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 512 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 12 1998 photo; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 67 No 5 2002 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 1 2004 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 8 2004 drawing fide; Orchid Species of Peru Zelenko Bermudez 2009 photo fide; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide; Orquideas del Peru Freuler 2010 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 80 #2 2016; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 drawing fide;

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