Maxillaria arachnites Rchb. f. 1880 sect. Arachnites Christenson 2013 Photo by © Rodrigo Escobar

Another Flower Photo by © Weyman Bussey

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Common Name The Spider-Shaped Maxillaria

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a short, ascending rhizome carrying small, ancipitous, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, imbricating leaf sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblanceolate, erect or sub-erect, subacute leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, to 8" [to 20 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly arising growth, enveloped by several, tubular, acute sheaths and a lanceolate, acute, green spotted with purple floral bract and carrying fragrant flowers.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo hmm; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 not = M marmoliana = M bradei; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 = M marmoliana = M bradei; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 = M marmoliana; Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 as Subgen Camaridium; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1338 Atwood 1989; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo soso;

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