Maxillaria luteoalba Lindl. 1846 sect. Aggregatae Pfitz 1889

Specimen plant Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Another Clone Photo by David Morris

To and EARLY

Common Name The Yellow and White Maxillaria

Flower Size to more than 4" [to more than 10 cm]

Found from Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela at 100 to 1800 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing, epiphytic species that has clustered, ovoid-oblong, slightly compressed, dark brown pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, narrowly oblong-elliptic, rigid, suberect, obtuse, narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and early summer on a erect or ascending, 3 1/2 to 6" [8.75 to 15 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb, with faintly fragrant, long-lasting, variable colored flowers and several papery, tubular bracts.

Synonyms Maxillaria luteo-grandiflora hort. 1871; Maxillaria turneri G.Nicholson 1885

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1853; Bonplandia 1854; Bonplandia Rchb.f 1855; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo ok; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 5 1957 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 27 No 6 1958; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 #7 1969 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Orquideologia Vol 17 #3 1988 as subgen Camaridium; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 71 No 2 2002 photo fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 73 No 6 2004; Orquideologia Vol 29 #1 2012 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 drawing fide;

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