Maxillaria inflexa (Lindl.) Griseb.1864 Photo by © Marie-Monique Barreau and the Art Monie - Orchids of Guadeloupe Website
Plant and Flowers in situ Photos by © Eduoard Faria.
Common Name The Bent Maxillaria
Flower Size .2" [5mm]
Found in the Leeward and Windwards Islands as a small to medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with a long, scandent, branching rhizome enveloped by imbricate scarious sheaths and giving rose to remote, ovoid, slightly compressed pseudobulbs carrying 1 [2?] apical, coriaceous, oblong, basally canaliculate, asymetrically acute leaves that blooms in the fall and winter on an axillary, short, fasciculate, long-pedunculate, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms *Camaridium inflexum Lindl. 1840; Ornithidium inflexum (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1864
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Symbolae Antillanae Vol VI Orchidaceae Urban 1909; Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000 drawing ok
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