Maxillaria bicallosa (Rchb.f.) Garay 1962 Photo by © Ecuagenera and their Orchid Website

Part ShadeWarm Cool

Common Name The Two Callosed Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.15" [2.8 cm]

Found in Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 700 to 800 meters as a medium to just large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte without pseudobulbs and a flexuous, filiform, elongate stem enveloped completely by erect-patent, linear, acute, glabrousthin textured leaves that blooms on axillary, fasciculate, 1.2" [3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Inti bicallosa (Rchb.f.) M.A.Blanco 2007; Kefersteinia bicallosa (Rchb.f.) Rchb.f. 1878; Maxillaria caespitosa C.Schweinf. 1945; Ornithidium dolichophyllum Schltr. 1921; *Zygopetalum bicallosum Rchb.f.1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten IV Peru Schlechter 1921

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