Maxillaria tonsbergii Christenson 2000 sect. Aggregatae Pfitz 1889
Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photo by Walter Teague
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Common Name Tonsberg's Maxillaria [American Cultivator of the species current]
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Venezuela? without locality as a large sized, cool growing? epiphyte? with obliquely ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by a pair of papery bracts that are somewhat longer than the pseudobulb and carrying ligulate, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms on peduncle with inflated, tubular bracts, short to 6" [15 cm] long single flowered inflorescence with subsimilar, obovate, acute, subequal to the ovary floral bracts and carrying showy, coriaceous flowers.
Similar species include M colorata, M microtricha, M nigrescens and M niessenae.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchid Digest Vol 64 #1 2000 Christenson photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 12 2002 Photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #10 2019 photo fide;
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