Maxillaria steyermarkii Foldats 1968 Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Steyermark's Maxillaria [American Botanist in Venezuela later 1900's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Tachira state of Venezuela at elevations of 2305 to 2600 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with close set, ovoid to subglobose, ancipitous pseudobulbs enveloped basally by scarious, leafless sheaths and carrying 2 apical, subcoriaceous, linear-oblong to linear-oblanceolate, obtuse, gradually folds below into conduplicate, petiolate-attenuate base leaves that blooms on a few, basal, erect, 3.6 to 7.2" [9 to 18 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb enveloped completely by imbricate, dilated, longly striated, shortly acuminate bracts.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 5 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas Nativas del Tachira Cesar Fernandez 2003 photo fide;
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