Maxillaria rigida Barb.Rodr. 1881 sect. Siagonanthus [Poepp. & Endl.] Christenson 2013
Plant and Inflorescence Photo by © Luiz Filipe Varella
Common Name The Rigid Maxillaria
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venzuela and Brazil cloud forests at elevations around 1000 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with about 6" [15 cm] between each, robust, ovoid to elliptic, brownish pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a scarious sheath and carrying a single, apical erect, linear-oblong, coriaceous, rigid, conduplicate leaf that blooms in the fall
This species and M pendans are often cited as synonyms, I have left them separate until I hear from the Brazillian experts as the two pictures that I have are definitely different species. This one matches Hoehne's drawings of 1953 much better but differs in having a single inflorescence instead of several.
Synonyms Camaridium rigidum (Barb.Rodr.) Schltr. 1924; Laricorchis rigida (Barb.Rodr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Ornithidium rigidum (Barb.Rodr.) M.A.Blanco & Ojeda 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium pendulum drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium rigidum; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville & Garay 1976 as M pendens drawing good; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as M pendens drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing good; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003; Orquideas Da Chapada Diamantina Brito & Cribb 2005
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