Maxillaria flava Ames , F.T.Hubb. & C.Schweinf. 1934
Photo by © Franco Pupulin TYPE Drawing by Ames and The Epidendra Website CR
Common Name The Yellow Maxillaria
Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 700 to 1350 meters as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a cane-like stem with almost 3" [7 cm] between each, conic, truncate, furrowed pseudobulb enveloped basally by 1 to 2 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thin, elliptic, rounded to emarginate, keeled, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the fall on a basal, .35" to .8" [8 to 20 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped almost completely by an acute floral bract
Synonyms Camaridium ramonense (Schltr.) M.A.Blanco 2007; Ornithidium ramonense Schltr. 1923
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 243. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium ramonense; 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; Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87 29–34 Zambrano & Solano 2016; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium ramonense photo fide
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