Maxillaria lankesteri Ames 1924Photo by Eric Hunt

Plant and Flowers Photos by Daniel Jimenez

Another Color Form Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids, Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved

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Common Name Lankester's Maxillaria [American Botanist in Costa Rica early 1900's]

Flower Size 1/2" to 1" [1.25 to 2.5 cm]

Found in Costa Rica and Panama in premontane rainforests at elevations of 600 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 3.2" [8 cm ] between each, cylindric to slightly tapered pseudobulbs subtended by 1 to 2 foliate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, coriaceous to fleshy, sessile, elliptic, unequally bilobed apically, gradually narrowing below into the conduplicate base leaf that blooms in the fall in situ.

Synonyms Camaridium lankesteri (Ames) M.A.Blanco 2007; Chaseopsis aurantiaca (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Maxillaria bilobulata Senghas 1993; Ornithidium aurantiacum Schltr. 1923

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 241. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium aurantiacum; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as M bilobulata; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 75 No 2 2006 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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