Orchidaceae
Maxillaria

Maxillaria pendula (Poepp. & Endl.) C.Schweinf.

First published in Bot. Mus. Leafl. 11: 285 (1945)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Central & S. Tropical America. It is a pseudobulbous epiphyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Bolivia, Brazil Southeast, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Blanco, M.A., Carnevali, G., Bogarín, D. & Singer, R.B. (2008). Further disentangling of a taxonomic puzzle: Maxillaria ramosa, Ornithidium pendulum and a new species, O. elianae (Orchidaceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 13: 137-154. [Cited as Ornithidium pendulum.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Blanco, M.A., Carnevali, G., Bogarín, D. & Singer, R.B. (2008). Further disentangling of a taxonomic puzzle: Maxillaria ramosa, Ornithidium pendulum and a new species, O. elianae (Orchidaceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 13: 137-154.
  • Christenson, E.A., Harding, P.A., McIllmurray, M. & Blanco, M. (2013). Maxillaria An Unfinished Monograph 1-2: 1-936. Patricia Ann Harding for Robert Christenson, Lebanon, OR.
  • Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

  • Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
  • CITES (2021). Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. https://cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php
  • Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Apr 1, 1994 Lehmann, F.C. [B.J.229] Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458230 Yes
Apr 1, 1994 Lehmann, F.C. [6936] Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458229 Yes
Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458227 Yes
Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458228 Yes
Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458229 Yes
Colombia Maxillaria ochracea K001458230 Yes
Nov 9, 2009 Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K000079236 No
Nov 9, 2009 Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K000079236 No
Dec 1, 2006 Lehmann, F.C. [8115] Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K001458224 Yes
Oct 3, 2006 Pennel, F.W.; Killip, E.P. [8193] Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K001458226 Yes
Colombia, Ecuador Ornithidium pendulum K001458222 Yes
Colombia, Ecuador Ornithidium pendulum K001458223 Yes
Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K001458224 Yes
Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K001458225 Yes
Colombia Ornithidium pendulum K001458226 Yes
Costa Rica Pseudomaxillaria pendula K:SPC-23917.000 No
Mason, L.M. [2157] Costa Rica Pseudomaxillaria pendula K:SPC-32015.000 No
Pseudomaxillaria pendula K:SPC-08392.000 No
Peru Maxillaria tafallae K001458219 Yes
Peru Maxillaria tafallae K001458220 Yes
Peru Maxillaria tafallae K001458221 Yes
Venezuela Maxillaria tafallae K001458232 Yes
Mason, L.M. [287] Guyana Ornithidium ochraceum K:SPC-37563.000 No
Ornithidium ochraceum K:SPC-13776.000 No

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia

    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0