Maxillaria subulata Lindl 1832
Plant and Flower Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varella
Another flower, what used to be M paulistana Photo by © Karl Senghas and The Swiss Orchid FOundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name The Terete Maxillaria
Flower Size 1” [2.5 cm]
Found in southeastern Brazil as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with cylindric-fusiform, 6 ridged, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single [rarely 2], erect, fleshy, semi-conduplicate to terete, linear, acuminate, attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the spring on a short, as long or a little longer than the pseudobulb, single flowered inflorescence arising through 2 long bracts.
Synonyms Christensonella hatschbachii (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Christensonella paulistana (Hoehne) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Smiszek 2006; Christensonella subulata ( Lindl. ) Szlach., Mytnik , Górniak & Smiszek 2006; Mapinguari echinochilus (Kraenzl.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Maxillaria paulistana Hoehne 1952;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as M paulistana drawing hmm; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 as M paulistanadrawing fide; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as M paulistana photo fide to the M paulistana photo above;
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