Maxillaria inaudita Rchb. f. 1866
Photo by Daniel Jimenez
Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica
Photo by © Carola Pahl
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Common Name The Unheard Maxillaria
Flower Size 3 1/4" [8.5 cm]
Found in Costa Rica and Panama in secondary cloud forests and pastures on tree trunks at elevations around 800 to 1800 meters as a large sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with an erect to pendent stem subtended by ovoid pseudobulbs carrying a single apical, coriaceous, distichous on the canes, oblong-elliptic, apically variable, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter and spring on a lateral, 2 to 3.2" [5 to 8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence carrying a fragrant flower that occurs in the winter and spring
Synonyms Camaridium inauditum (Rchb.f.) M.A.Blanco 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 #3 1980 as M eliator photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 1349 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 63 No 1994 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing ok; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003 drawing good; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Camaridium inauditum photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 as Camaridium inauditum photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium inauditum photo fide
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