Maxillaria aequiloba Schltr. 1920 sect. Aggregatae Pfitz 1889 Photo © by The AOS Species Identification Task Force Website

TYPE Drawing TYPE Drawing © by Schlechter

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Equal Lobed Maxillaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Antioquia and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and Ecuador at elevaitions around 1800 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a short rhizome giving rise to oblong, slighty compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, obtuse, canaliculate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a basal, erect, provided with 6 to 7 clasping, shortly acuminate, the uppers somewhat imbricate, peduncular sheaths, glabrous, terete, 3.2 to 3.6" {8 to 9 cm} long, single flowered inflorescence with widely elliptic, apiculate, slightly longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying glabrous, fleshy flowers.

Similar to M colorata but M aequiloba is recognizable by the sepals, which are fairly uniform and the three-lobed lip.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 7: 165 Schlechter 1920; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih.57:225 Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide

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