Maxillaria microphyton Schltr. 1910
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez and His Flickr Costa RIca Orchid Photo WebPage
Common Name The Dwarf Maxillaria
Flower Size .2" [5.5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and western Panama in cloud forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a mat forming, cool growing epiphyte often on shrubs or as a terrestrial beneath them with an erect to pendant, cane-like stem with 3" [7.5 cm] between each conic to suborbicular, sulcate pseudobulb subtended by 1 to 2 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single, apical, thin, elliptic, rounded to emarginate, gradually narrowing below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring through fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence arising on both mature and immature foliaceous and non-foliaceous sheaths.
Synonyms Camaridium microphyton (Schltr.) M.A.Blanco 2007; Chaseopsis microphyton (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012, Maxillaria pallidiflava (Schltr.) Senghas 1993; Ornithidium pallidiflavum Schltr. 1923; Ornithidium parvulum Schltr. 1911
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 143. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 242. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 305. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium pallidiflavum; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as M pallidiflava; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing good; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Camaridium microphyton photo ok; AOS Bulletin Vol 80 #2 2011 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium microphyton photo fide
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