Maxillaria rhombea Lindl. 1840 sect. Cucullatae Christenson 2013
Photos by David Morris and Clackmas Orchids
Photo by Noble Bashor
Photo by Patricia Harding
Common Name The Diamond Shaped Maxillaria
Flower Size 2 1/2" [6.25 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador at elevations around 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, cold growing epiphyte with dark green, laterally compressed, wrinkled with age pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, scarious sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear, obtuse and emarginate apically, carinate dorsally, conduplicate towards the base leaf that blooms in the winter on to 2, lateral, single flowered, 4 to 4 3/2" [10 to 12 cm] long, erect inflorescence completely enveloped by several, inflated, scarious bracts.
Synonyms Camaridium rhombeum (Lindl.) M.A.Blanco 2007; Psittacoglossum rhombeum (Lindl.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo good; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide;
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