Maxillaria histrionica (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1950 sect. Reflexae Christenson 2013 Photo by Dunsterville
Another angle Photos by J P Janovec and the Atrium Biodiversity Information System Website
Common Name The Enchanting Maxillaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Venezuela and Peru in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a giant sized, rather straggling, suberect, arching to pendent, warm growing epiphyte with a branched rhizome arising from a pseudobulbous base with a few pairs of leaf-bearing sheaths and 2 apical leaves and gives rise every 6" to 14" [15 to 35 cm], ovoid, bi-foliate pseudobulbs carrying 2, thin, fairly stiff, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on several from different leaf bases, axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence
The small arrows in the upper left hand side of the Peruvian photo [another Flower?] shows the backbent apical spur of the lip which is a large factor in this species determination. The photo comes from a plant found in Peru, all references I can find mention only Mexico and Venezuela as locations but Peru is about the same distance to the south west from Venezuela as Mexico is to the northwest.
Synonyms Laricorchis aristeguietae (Foldats) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Laricorchis histrionica (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Maxillaria aristeguietae Foldats 1961; *Ornithidium histrionicum Rchb.f.1856
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 4 Dunsterville & Garay 1966 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Volumen 15 Parte 3 Foldats 1970 as M hystrionica [sic] drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Venezuelan Orchids Dunsterville 1987 drawing/photo fide; Orquídea (Méx.) 12(2): 244-250. Soto Arenas 1992 ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as Ornithidium histrionicum photo good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide;
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