Maxillaria pseudoneglecta J.T.Atwood 1993 sect. Pseudomaxillaria [Hoehne] Christenson 2013
Photos by © Pieter C. Brouwer and his Nature Photo Website
Photo by © Walter Schug
Common Name The False Neglected Maxillaria
Flower Size .2" [5.5 mm]
Found in Costa Rica and western Panama in premontane and montane forests at elevations above 900 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a scraggly, mostly pendant stem with .4 to 3.2" between each cylindric to ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulb subtended by a pair of subulate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through fall on a fascile of .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and the pedicel and ovary are concealed by the inflated bracts.
Similar to M neglecta but always with larger flowers and the lip has much broader lateral lobes with convex margins and the leaves are broader and more lanceolate
Synonyms Ornithidium anceps Rchb.f. 1866; Pseudomaxillaria anceps (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 143. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium anceps; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 240. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Ornithidium anceps; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 304. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Orcnithidium anceps; Field Guide to the Orchids of Costa Rica and Panama Dressler 1993; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing ok; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Australian Orchid Review Vol 73 No 4 2008 photo; Orchids of Costa Rica Vol 4 Morales 2009 as Camridium anceps photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium pseudoneglectum photo fide
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