Maxillaria tenuifolia Lindley 1837
Flower Closeup Photo By Jay Pfahl
Specimen Plant Photo courtesy of Paul Phelps and Phelps Farm Orchids
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Common Name The Coconut Orchid - The Delicate Leafed Maxillaria
Flower Size 1 1/2 to 2" [3.9 to 5 cm]
The Coconut Orchid, named for it's scent, occurs in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Niacaragua and Costa Rica as a medium sized, cool to hot growing, solitary leafed epiphyte or occaisiional terrestrial with an ascending growth habit found on trees in open or dense forests at low elevations up to 1500 meters, with a rhizome that is completely enveloped by scarious, imbricating, nonfoliaceous bracts with oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, compressed pseudobulb with a single apical, linear, attenuate leaf that blooms on a 2" [5cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb with scarious, basal bracts with the flower held at mid leaf height and occurs in spring and summer and then needs a semi-dry rest through the winter months, best mounted on tree fern.
Synonyms Maxillaria gracilifolia Kraenzel 1927; Maxillariella tenuifolia (Lindl.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 5 1979; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 6 1979 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 867 Dodson 1983; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 No 1 1985 photo; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1366 Atwood 1989; Icones Orchidacearum I Plate 63 Hagsater & Salazar 1990; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 4 1994 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 3 1997 photo; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1997; AOS Bulletin Vol 67 No 1 1998 photo; Australian Orchid Review Vol 69 No 2 2004 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 drawing; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 2 2007 photo; AOS Bulletin Vol 78 No 2 2009 photo
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