Maxillaria uncata Lindl. 1837 Photo by Oak Hill Gardens and their Orchid Catalog

Another Flower Photo by 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 ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1856; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 17: 72. Panama Schlechter 1922 as M stenostele; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 236. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as M stenostele; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium squamatum drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing good; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 163 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 868 Dodson 1983 drawing fide; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1369 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 62 No 8 1993 photo as Max squamata; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 117 Bennett & Christenson 1993 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 as M squamata drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 710 Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Supplemental Plate Bennett & Christenson 2001 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 as M squamata; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 2 Morales 2009 as Christonella uncata photo fide;

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