Maxillaria sophronitis (Rchb. f.) Garay 1958 Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt
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Common Name The Sophronitis-Like Maxillaria
Flower Size less than 1" [1.5 cm]
This is a dwarf, epiphytic, mat forming, cool to warm growing species that is found in Venezuela and NE Colombia at altitudes of 750 to 1700 meters in cloud forests with a rhizome enveloped by brown sheaths carrying ovoid, compressed, dull brown pseudobulbs subtended by 1 or 2 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, minutely apiculate, coriaceous leaf and blooms, dwarfing the plant, on a basal, 1 1/2" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature prominent, unifoliate pseudobulb as a new growth arises that is subtended by a bract, occuring in the fall and early winter. Best grown on a mount and given constant moisture and bright light.
Synonyms*Ornithidium sophronitis Rchb. f. 1854
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970;
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