Maxillaria quelchii Rolfe 1901 Photo by John VDW at The Orchid Board Community Website
Drawing Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana, Bogota Colombia
Common Name The Quelche Maxillaria [Indian Tribe in Central Brazil]
Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]
Found in Surinam, Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil in cloud forests, open forests and on tepui summits at elevations of 400 to 2700 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial with a repent and ascending rhizome carrying compressed, narrowly oblong pseudobulbs almost completely enveloped by imbricate, leafless and leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, erect, rigid, coriaceous, oblong-lanceolate, oblong or oblanceolate, acute to almost obtuse, attenuate basally leaf that blooms in the fall on axillary, arising on a newly arising pseudobulb, 3.2" [8 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by brown-green somewhat inflated bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953; AOS Bulletin Vol 33 #8 1964; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 3 Dunsterville & Garay 1965 drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967; Flora de Venezuela Vol XV Parte 4 Foldats 1970 drawing hmm; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 3 1979; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing hmm; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing hmm; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok; Orquideas de Roirama Luz & Franco 2012 photo fide; 20(2): 67–216. Ossenbach & Jenny 2020 collection sheet fide
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