Maxillaria coccinea [Plum]L.O.Williams 1954 Photo by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.
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Common Name The Scarlet Maxillaria
Flower Size less than 1" [less than 2.5 cm]
Found in the Dominican Republic, Leewards, Puerto Rico, Trinidad & Tobago, Windwards, Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil in primary forests at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a medium sized, hot to cool growing solitary leafed epiphytic species with a rhizome enveloped by scarious, overlapping, papery sheaths with ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, linear-oblong, acute or obtuse leaf that is folded towards the base that blooms in the spring and summer on a fascicle of wiry, 2 1/2" [6.5 cm] long, solitary flowered, lateral to descending inflorescence that arise from the base of the leaves.
Synonyms Camaridium coccineum [Plum.]Hoehne 1947; Cymbidium coccineum [Plum.] Willd. 1799; *Epidendrum coccineum [Plum] Jacq. 1760; *Helleborine coccinea multiflora Plum 1703; Ornithidium acaule Hoffmsg. 1843; Ornithidium coccineum [Plum.] Salisb. 1812
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909 as Ornithidium coccinium; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium coccineum; Native Orchids of Trinidad Schultes 1960; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970; AOS Bulletin Vol 61 No 10 1992 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 2 2009 photo as Ornithidium coccineum; Neo-Urbania adendrobium;
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