Maxillaria hennisiana Schltr. 1912
Photos by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by © Jay Pfahl
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Common Name Hennis' Maxillaria [German Orchid Collector 1800's]
Flower Size .8" [2 cm]
Found in Panama, Colombia and Ecuador in mangrove swamps and primary forests as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters with ovoid, longitudinally ridged, flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, erect, narrowly elliptic, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring on many, basal, 2" [5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence all opening at once.
Synonyms Maxillaria shepheardii Rolfe 1917
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 5 2004 photo fide; Orquideas de la Serrania del Baudo Misas Urreta 2006 drawing/photo ok; Orquideologia Vol 27 #2 2010 photo ok; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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