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Orchid Species: Maxillaria histrionica
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Maxillaria histrionica is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams in 1950.
ORIGIN: Found in Mexico, Venezuela and Peru in rain or cloud forests at elevations of 1200 to 1400 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, rather straggling, suberect, arching to pendent, warm growing epiphyte with a branched rhizome arising from a pseudobulbous base with a few pairs ofleaf bearing sheaths and 2 apical leaves and gives rise every 6 to 14 [15 to 35 cm], ovoid, bifoliate pseudobulbs carrying 2, thin, fairly stiff, narrowly lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing into the basally clasping leaves that blooms in the fall on several from different leaf bases, axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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