Maxillaria bolivarensis C.Schweinf. 1962 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Bolivar Maxillaria [refers to its being found in the Grand Bolivar nations Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru]

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in very wet montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphtye with a short stem giving rise to ovate, flattened pseudobulbs partially enveloped below by 2 well developed leaves and carrying a single, apical, thick, linear, size variable, conduplicate toward below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several imbricating, acuminate bracts

This species is part of the M aracnites group and is distinguished by the white flowers with relatively short, stiff sepals.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 146 Dodson 1980;