Maxillaria angustisegmenta Ames & C.Schweinf.1930

Front View Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Narrow Segmented Maxillaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 300 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with ovoid to conic, slightly compressed pseueobulbs enveloped partially below by several smooth, chartaceous, minutely spotted, triangular, acute sheaths and carrying a sungle apical oblong-elliptic, acute, gradually narrowing below into the elongate, conduplicate, petiollate base leaf that blooms in the fall through spring on an erect, 1.6 to 6" [4 to 15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence concealed by 4 to6, inflated, minutely spotted bracts.

Synonyms Maxillaria endresii var. angustisegmenta (Ames & C. Schweinf.) C. Schweinf. ?

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 843 Hamer 1983; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1336 Atwood 1989; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994 photo; Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997;