Maxillaria spilotantha Rchb.f. 1854 sect. Erectae Pfitz 1889
Photos by © Ecuagenera and their Ecuador Orchid Website
Common Name The Spotted Flower Maxillaria
Flower Size 1.2" [3 cm]
Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela in low forests at elevations of 1500 to 2700 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an elongate, sometimes branching stem enveloped completely by close, imbricating, distichous leaf-bearing sheaths and bearing at remote intervals, oblong-ovoid to ellipsoid, complanate pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, linear-ligulate, abruptly round-obtuse, often bilobulate and apiculate apically, somewhat narrowing below into the sessile base leaf that blooms in the spring on numerous, axillary, single flowered inflorescence.
This species is very similar to M procurrens but differs in the wider, flatter lip with lower, even height sidelobes and the lip apex is more shovel-like.
Synonyms Maxillariella spilotantha (Rchb. f.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Bonplandia Rchb.f 1854; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 not = M guareimensis; AOS Bulletin Vol 36 #9 1967 =M guareimensis; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 not = M guareimensis; Fieldiana Biology, Vol 33, 1st Supple. to the Orchids of Peru Schweinfurth 1970; Die Orchideen #2 5-8 tafel 3 Rudolph Schlechter 1971 drawing ok column only; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 6 COS 1998 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Orquideas de Farallones de Cali Galindo-Tarazona, Haelterman, Zuluaga Trochez and Sebastian Moreno 2020 photo fide
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