Maxillaria vitelliniflora Barb. Rodr. 1877

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of Jay Pfahl

Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Americo Docha Neto

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Common Name The Yolk-Yellow Flower Maxillaria

Flower Size 1/4" [.6cm]

Found in Found in Rio State to Parana and Minas Gerais in Brazil as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with chains of oblong, sulcate, erect pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating, scarious sheaths and carrying 2 apical, erect, aciculate, acuminate leaves and blooms in the summer and fall on a basal, very short inflorescence that just surpasses the scarious sheaths of the pseudobulb and arises on a mature pseudobulb.

Synonyms Christensonella vitelliniflora ( Barb.Rodr. ) Szlach. , Mytnik , Górniak & ?miszek 2006

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953;

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