Maxillaria confusa Ames & C. Schweinf. 1925
Another Angle Photo by © Daniel Jimenez and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website Common Name The Confounded Maxillaria
Flower Size 3/4" [2.2 cm]
Found in Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia in pastures and open semi-evergreen forests at elevations of sealevel to 1450 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with smooth, compressed, orbicular to elliptic pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by a few scarious, leafless sheaths and carrying a single, apical, narrowly ellptical to ligulate, with conspicuous white veins, subcoriaceous, retuse, basally conduplicate into the base leaf that blooms in the summer and fall with fragrant flowers on several, 1 3/5" [4 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising from the base of a mature pseudobulb and enveloped completely by several, imbricating, loose, acuminate bracts.
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
Epidendra Website CR ; *Schedul. Orchid. 8: 57. 1925; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 847 Dodson 1983 drawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo hmm; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2005 drawing/photo not = M sp; Orchid Digest Vol 73 #3 2009; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 photo good; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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