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Pseudomaxillaria anceps is an orchid species identified by (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko in 2012. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria pseudoneglecta.
ORIGIN: Found in Costa Rica and Western Panama in premontane and montane forests at elevations above 900 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a scraggly, mostly pendant stem with .4 to 3.2 between each cylindric to ellipsoid, compressed pseudobulbs subtended by a pair of subulate sheaths and carrying a single, apical, lanceolate, acute, gradually narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaf that blooms in the late spring through fall on a fascile of .4 [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and the pedicel and ovary are concealed by the inflated bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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