Maxillaria pudica Carnevali & J.L.Tapia 2001

sect. Rufescens Christenson 2013

Photo by © Julio Larramendi

LATER EARLIER

Common Name The Modest Maxillaria

Flower Size

Found in Cuba, Jamaica, Doninican Republic, Haiti, Puerto Rico and the Leeward Islands as a small to just medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical, oblong, acute, coriaceous, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later fall and earlier winter on a lateral, hanging, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Maxillaria rufescens var. minor Fawc. & Rendle 1910; Mormolyca pudica (Carnevali & J.L.Tapia) M.A.Blanco 2007; Xanthoxerampellia minor (Fawc. & Rendle) Szlach. & Sitko 2012

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho and Larramendi 2005 photo fide;

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