Maxillaria villosa (Barb. Rodr.) Cogn. 1904 sect. Iridifoliae Pfitz 1889

Flower and Plant Photos by © Luiz Filipe Varella

Flower Closeup Photo by © Jay Pfahl

Common Name or Meaning The Shaggy Maxillaria

Flower Size 3/4" [2 cm]

Found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil in rainforests at elevations of 130 to 1200 meters as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with numerous, clustered, ovoid-oblong, laterally compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by several, foliaceous, leaf sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-ligulate, coriaceous, clear green leaf that is attenuate basally and canoe-shaped and blooms in the fall in Brazil on numerous to each basal sheath an erect, 1 3/5 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with sharp pointed, imbricate bracts.

Synonyms *Dicrypta villosa Barb. Rodr. 1877; Heterotaxis villosa (Barb.Rodr.) F.Barros 2002

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970; Orchidaceae Brasilenses Band 2 Pabst & Dungs 1977 drawing fide; Flora of the Venezuelan Guayana Vol 7 Steyermark, Berry, Yatskievych and Holst 2003 drawing ok;

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