Maxillaria cornuta C.Schweinf. 1945 sect Trigonae Christenson 2013 Photo by © Takato Natsui and His Professor Summer's Webgarden

Common Name The Horned Maxillaria

Flower Size 1.6" [4 cm]

Found in Junin Peru in cool wet cloud forests at elevations of 1800 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with oblate, moderately compressed, rounded edge pseudobulbs enveloped by 2 basal pairs of distichous, imbricate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-ligulate, tapering into the conduplicate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on 2 on each pseudobulb, suberect, terete, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by 4 to 5, subinflated, close tubular bracts.

Synonyms Sauvetrea cornuta (C.Schweinf.) M.A.Blanco 2007

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchids of Peru Vol 3 Schweinfurth 1960; Icones Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 313 Bennett & Christenson 1995 drawing fide;

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