Maxillaria muscicola Rchb.f. 1878 sect. Arachnites Christenson 2013
Photo by © Juan Sebastian Moreno and Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020
HOLOTYPE Drawing by © Guillermo Misas
Common Name The Moss Loving Maxillaria
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Choco and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Pastaza province f Ecuador on the Pacific slope of the Andes in pluvial or montane wet cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 2600 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing, caespitose epiphyte with ovoid, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by foliaceous bracts, the upperemost subequal to the single, elliptic, abruptly acute, petiolate base leaf that blooms on laxly erect, basal, peduncle 2.6 to 4.8" [6.5 to 12 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence eith lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.
"M muscicola has flowers in the pattern of M lepidota
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Otia Bot. Hamburg.: 7 Rchb.f 1878;
Orquideas de la Serrania de Baudo Choco Colombia Misas 2005 as M lepidota Drawing/photo fide;
Maxillaria and Unfinished Monograph Chrstenson 2009;
Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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