Maxillaria cedralensis J.T.Atwood & Mora-Ret. 1997 Photo by © Eric Hunt and His Orchid Website

Common Name The Cedral Maxillaria [A town in province of San Jose]

Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]

Found only in San Jose Province in Costa Rica at elevations around 2000 to 1500 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with ovate, compressed pseudobulbs, enveloped basally by inarticulate, triangular,nonfolioaceous sheaths, and carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic leaf that blooms in the spring on a slightly fractiflex, 3.2 to 4" [8 to 10 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by bracts and having floral bracts that are longer than the ovary.

Differs from the similar M punctostriata and M obscura by it's revolute margins of the sepals

Synonyms Camaridium cedralense (J.T. Atwood & Mora-Ret.) M.A. Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997

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