Maxillaria chlorantha Lindl. 1837 sect. Multiflorae Christenson 2013 Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The Yellow Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and northern Brazil in openings of dense cloud forests at elevations around 1100 to 2300 meters as a small to medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with strongly compressed, finely grooved pseudobulbs enveloped completely by several imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths that become deciduous with age and carrying a single, apical, erect, linear-oblong, strongly assymetrical apically, conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the late winter and early spring on several at once, axillary, 3.6" [9 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by pale green, lightly inflated sheaths.

CAUTION: I am uncomfortable with this determination, no pubescence on the lip and the photo shows an acute apex not evident in the drawings below.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing ok; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing ok; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo ok; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing ok; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003

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