Maxillaria curvicolumna M.A.Blanco & Neubig 2007

Flower with sepal and petal removed to expose the curved column

Plant Photos by Mark Whitten

Common Name or Meaning The Curved Column Maxillaria

Flower Size .52" [1.3 cm]

Found in Panama and Colombia on branches of tall trees without localities, most likely as a miniature to just small sized, cool, pendent growing epiphyte with a rhizome enveloped by tight fitting scarious, purple spotted sheaths, and .32 to 1.8" [.8 to 4.5 cm] between each ovoid to orbicular, biconvex pseudobulbs subtended by 2 to 3, foliaceous bracts and carrying a single, apical, thick, leathery, sublinear, acute, minutely naviculate, gradually narrowing below in to the conduplicate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a basal, peduncle 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by 7 tight, adpressed, imbricating, lanceolate, conduplicate, greenish bracts including the shorter to as long as the ovary floral bract

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *AOS Bulletin Vol 76 No 6 2007 photo fide

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