Maxillaria caucana Schltr. 1920 sect. Arachnites Christenson 2013
Photo by Eric Christenson
TYPE Drawing by Schlechter
Common Name The Cauca Maxillaria
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in Cauca department of Colombia as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, filiform, flexuous, glabrous rhizome giving rise to narrowly ovate to oblong, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, ligulate, subapiculate, narrowing below into the narrowly canaliculate, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, petiolate base leaf that blooms on almost every pseudobulb a basal, erect, thin, peduncle with 7 completely enveloping, clasping bracts, 4.8 to 6" [12 to 15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with a floral bract similar to the peduncle, equal to the ovary in length bracts and carrying glabrous, flowers similar to M lepidota but somewhat smaller.
Synonyms Maxillariella caucana (Schltr.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Die Orchideen der Sudamerikanischen Kordillerenstaaten II Colombia Schlechter 1920; Figuren Atlas Orchideenfloren der Sudamerickanischen Kordillerenstaaten Schlechter 1929 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 2 2002 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 Drawing not = M caucae; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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