Maxillaria picta Hook. 1832 sect. Repentes Christenson 2013 Photo by © Eric Hunt

Another Flower Photo by Oliver Lenhard

Side View Of Flower Photo by Patricia Harding

Plant and Flowers in situ Sao Paulo Brazil Photo by © Ismael Nilton Vischi

Common Name or Meaning The Painted Maxillaria

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occaisional lithophyte with erect, ovoid-conical to ovoid-oblong, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by several scarious sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, to linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that are attenuate into the petiole below and blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, erect, single flowered inflorescence and carrying sometimes fragrant flowers.

Synonyms Bolbidium pictum (Hook.) J.M.H.Shaw 2011; Brasiliorchis picta (Hook.) R.B.Singer, S.Koehler & Carnevali 2007; Brasiliorchis rupestris (Barb.Rodr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Epidendrum uniflorum Vell. 1831; Maxillaria fuscata Klotsch 1888; Maxillaria hoehnei Schltr. 1921; Maxillaria kreysigii ex Beer Rchb.f 1854; Maxillaria kreysigii Hoffmanns. ex Regel 1856; Maxillaria leucocheila Hoffmannsegg 1843; Maxillaria picta var rupestris Hooker 1832; Maxillaria punctata Hoehne not Lodd. 1949; Maxillaria rupestris var brevis Hoehne & Schlechter 1927; Maxillaria rupestris var minor Hoehne 1952

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 photo good; Atlas des Orchidees Cultivees Constantin 1920 drawing good; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as M punctata drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as M hoehnei 1921; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 26 No 1 1957 photo fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids Travel By Air A Pictoral Safari Mulder, Mulder-Roelfsema and Schuiteman 1990 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; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as M rupestris; Orchids of the High Mountain Atlantic Rainforest in SE Brazil Warren & Miller 1994; 100 Orquideas Argentinas Freuler 2005 photo fide; Australian Orchid Review Vol 72 No 4 2007 photo; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; OrchidDigest Vol 88 #4 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 # 6 2019 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 88 #8 2019 drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 as M hoehne photo fide

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