Maxillaria uncata Lindl. 1837 Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

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Common Name The Hook Shaped Maxillaria

Flower Size 1/4" [1.2cm]

Found in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador Peru and Brazil in wet montane rainforests at altitudes of sealevel to 1300 meters and is a hot to cool growing, small scadent epiphyte with a pendulous stem that has a fusiform-cylindrical, sulcate with age pseudobulb with a solitary semi-terete leaf and a short, lateral, subsessile, single flowered inflorescence with subtending scarious sheaths held close into the leaves and occurs through the late spring, summer, fall and winter months. I have mine either mounted on treefern or in a fine mix of sphagnum, fenrock, woodchips, treefern and charcoal. Both plants are in semi-shade and get even year round conditions.

Synonyms Camaridium squamatum (Barb. Rodr.) Hoehne 1947; Camaridium uncatum (Lindl.) Hoehne 1952; Christensonella uncata ( Lindl. ) Szlach. , Mytnik , Górniak & ?miszek 2006; Maxillaria macleei Bateman ex Lindl. 1840; Maxillaria nana Hook. f. 1841; Maxillaria squamata Barb. Rodr. 1882; Maxillaria stenostele Schltr. 1918; Maxillaria striatella Kraenzl. 1928; Ornithidium nanum Rolfe; Ornithidium squamata (Barb. Rodr.) Barb. Rodr. 1882

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 163 Dodson 1980; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 868 Dodson 1983; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1369 Dodson 1989; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 117 Bennett & Christenson 1993; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 710 Bennett & Christenson 2001; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Supplemental Plate Bennett & Christenson 2001; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006;

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