Maxillaria ponerantha Rchb.f. 1854 sect. Erectae Pfitz 1889
Photo by © Pako and the Orchidees de Guyane Website
Photo by © Jorge Mario Munera
Common Name The Ponera-Like Maxillaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in Costa Rica, French Guiana, Surinam, Venezuela and Ecuador in cloud forests at elevations around 60 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with .6 to 1.2" [1.5 to 3 cm] between each ovoid to ellipsoid, compressed, ancipitous pseuodubulbs carrying 1 to 2, oblong to linear, obliquely bilobed apically, basally slightly atenuate leaves that blooms in the spring on a .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on maturing to mature stems with 2 acute, imbricate bracts and acute, imbricate, obtuse-acute, and shorter than half the length of the ovary.
Synonyms Maxillariella ponerantha (Rchb. f.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1864; AOS Bulletin Vol 30 No 5 1961; Venezuelan Orchids Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1961 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 4 1970 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing good; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1358 Atwood 1989 drawing ok; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II Plate 542 Dodson 1989 as m poneranthera drawing ok; The Orchids of Surinam Werkhoven 1986 photo hmm; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide to another color; Orchidacearum Peruviarum Plate 511 Bennett & Christenson 1998 drawing fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing ok; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Maxillariella ponerantha photo fide; ok; Phytotaxa 289 (3): 247–255 2016; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Maxillariella ponerantha photo fide
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