Maxillaria strumata (Endres & Rchb.f.) Ames & Correll 1943
Photo by © Daniel Jimenez
Photo by Patricia Harding
TYPE Drawing of Ornithidium strumatum by © Endres and The Epidendrum Website
Common Name The Bulging Maxillaria
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found from Guatemala, Costa Rica and Panama at elevations around 1000 to 1100 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphytic orchid with narrowly ovoid to cylindric, approximate pseudobulbs enveloped in youth by 1 to 2 foliaceous sheaths and carrying a single apical, thin, narrowly elliptic to oblong, obtuse, gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the fall on a to .6" [1.5 cm] long, basal, single flowered inflorescence subtended by a acuminate floral bract.
Synonyms Camaridium strumatum (Endrés & Rchb.f.) M.A.Blanco 2007; *Ornithidium strumatum Endres & Rchb.f. 1874; Pseudomaxillaria strumata (Endrés & Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Sepalosaccus humilis Schltr. 1923; Sepalosaccus strumatus (Endres & Rchb.f.) Garay 1962
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Xenia Orchidaceae Vol 3 Reichenbach 1878 as Ornithidium strumatum drawing; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 245. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as S humilis; Studies in American orchids VI Canadian Journal of Botany 34(2):241-260 Garay 1962 as Sepalochilus strumatus drawing fide; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965 as Sepalochilus humilis; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 28 1713 - 1776 Brieger 1993 as Sepalosaccus strumatus drawing ok/photo fide; Guatemala Y Sus Orquideas Behar & Tinschert 1998 photo fide; Fieldiana Biology, Flora Costa Ricensis Family # 39 Orchidaceae, subtribes Maxillariinae and Oncidiinae Atwood & Mora 1999 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Lankesteriana 7(3): 521. M.A. Blanco 2007 as Camaridium strumatum; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Sepalosaccus strumatus photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camaridium strumatum photo fide
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