Maxillaria caucana Schltr. 1920 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Another Flower Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Common Name The Cauca Maxillaria

Flower Size

Found in Colombia and Ecuador at elevations of 550 to 1450 as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a scrambling rhizome enveloped by distichous, elliptic, round leaves that blooms on a very short, single flowered inflorescence.

The photos are not even close to the drawing by Dodson in Native Orchids but it is the only reference I have for this species so I have left it as the photos are of what is sold as M caucana. To complicate matters both species photos are differnt as well. Anyone?

Synonyms Maxillariella caucana (Schltr.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002