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Orchid Species: Maxillaria auyantepuiensis
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Maxillaria auyantepuiensis is an orchid species identified by Foldats in 1961.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in wet, tropical and cooler montane forests at elevations of 220 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with ovoid, lightly complanate, lightly sulcate with age, dark green pseudobulbs surrounded basally by long hairs and carrying a single, apical, narrowly linear-lanceolate, attenuate to the elongate, slender petiole, acuminate leaf that blooms in the spring on short, basal, 5/8 to 7/8 [1.5 to 2 long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature pseudobulb then concealed by 4 to 5 subinflated, distichous, imbricating, acute bracts and holding a campanulate flower.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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