Maxillaria violaceo-punctata Rchb. f. 1855
Plant Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto
and EARLY 
Common Name The Violet Spotted Maxillaria
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found at elevations of 200 to 750 meters in French Guiana, Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia and Peru in wet montane forests at elevations of 600 to 700 meters as a large sized, caespitose, hot growing epiphyte with unifoliate, ovoid, flattened, sulcate, shiny pseudobulbs subtended by distichous, imbricating, foliaceous sheaths with linear-elliptic, basally clasping leaves that are somewhat conduplicate at the base where it blooms on a axillary, short to 2" [4.8 cm]long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the basal leaf sheaths of a mature pseudobulb with fleshy, successively opening, fragrant flowers occuring in the winter and early spring.
Synonyms Heterotaxis violaceopunctata (Rchb.f.) F.Barros 2002
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 558 Dodson 1982; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 550 Dodson 1989; Colombian Native Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 118 Bennett & Christenson 1993; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994 photo; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Supplemental Plate Bennett & Christenson 1998 Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002;
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