Maxillaria fletcheriana Rolfe 1913 sect. Iridifoliae Pfitz 1889
Photo by © Eric Hunt, plant grown by Howard Gunn
Photo by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Common Name Fletcher's Maxillaria [Botanic Garden Director, Edinburgh - late 1800's to 1900's]
Flower Size 3.2" [8 cm]
Found in eastern Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia in extremely wet montane forests at elevations of 500 to 2800 meters as a small to medium sized, robust, warm to cold growing epiphyte with oblong-ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several scarious, distichous leaf sheaths and carrying a single, apical, elliptic-oblong or oblong, acute or obtuse, shortly petiolate, channeled leaf that blooms at most any time of the year on an erect, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb enveloped basally by several loose, conduplicate, tubular sheaths and carrying showy, fragrant, long-lasting flowers.
Similar to Maxillaria augustae-victoriae, M christensonii, M colombiana, M crispiloba, M × dichroma, M x doucetiana, M eburnea, M elegantula, M fucata, M grandiflora, M grandis, M irrorata, M lehmannii, M macropoda, M sanderiana and Maxillaria turkeliae
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 1 1958 drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 452 Dodson 1982 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 54 #1 1985 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 74 #1 2010 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Orchid Digest Vol 78 #2 2014 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #6 2016 photo fide;
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