Maxillaria bolivarensis C.Schweinf. 1962 sect. Arachnites Christenson 2013 Photo by © Whitten, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
Another Angle Photo by Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Bolivar Maxillaria [refers to its being found in the Grand Bolivar nations of Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru]
Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil in very wet montane forests at elevations of 300 to 1200 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphtye with a short stem giving rise to ovate, flattened pseudobulbs partially enveloped below by 2 well developed leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thick, linear, size variable, conduplicate below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and summer on a basal, 5" [12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several imbricating, acuminate bracts.
This species is part of the M arachnites group and is distinguished by the white flowers with relatively short, stiff sepals.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; *Bot. Mus. Leafl. 20: 22. 1962; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 146 Dodson 1980 drawing hmm; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Orchid Digest Vol 64 #1 2000 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 as M marmoliana drawing/photo good; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #3 2009; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide
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