Maxillaria imbricata Barb.Rodr. 1877
Photos by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Photo by Eric Hunt
Common Name The Imbricate Maxillaria [Refers to the leaves position]
Flower Size 1 1/5" [3 cm]
Found in Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil at elevations of 100 to 1000 meters in tropical, wet cloud forests as a small to medium sized, hot growing epiphyte with an elongate rhizome between each ovate, flattened pseudobulb enveloped basally by well developed lateral leaves and sheaths and carrying a single apical, linear leaf that is conduplicate below and blooms at most any time of the year on many, basal, single flowered, to 1 1/2" [3.75 cm] long, inflorescence enveloped basally by 2 to 3, inflated sheaths
Synonyms Camaridium carinatum (Barb.Rodr.) Hoehne 1947; Camaridium hoehnei (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1953; Camaridium hoehnei var. carinatum (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1953; Camaridium hoehnei var. iguapense (Hoehne & Schltr.) Pabst 1953; Camaridium imbricatum var carinatum [Barb Rodr.] Hoehne 1952; Camaridium imbricatum var iguapense [Hoehne & Schlechter] Hoehne 1952; Camaridium iguapense (Hoehne & Schltr.) Hoehne 1947; Camaridium imbricatum (Barb.Rodr.) Hoehne 1947; Chelyella carinata (Barb.Rodr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Chelyella iguapensis (Hoehne & Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Chelyella imbricata (Barb.Rodr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Maxillaria carinata Barb.Rodr. 1881; Maxillaria iguapensis Hoehne & Schltr. 926; Maxillaria imbricata var. major Cogn. 1904; Maxillaria jenischiana var. carinata (Barb.Rodr.) Pabst 1972; Maxillaria jenischiana var. iguapensis (Hoehne & Schltr.) Pabst 1972; Viracocha imbricata (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 57. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium imbricatum; Repert. Sp. Nov. Regni. Veg. Beih. 19: 142. Costa Rica Schlechter 1923 as Camaridium imbricatum; Iconografia de Orchidaceae Do Brasil Hoehne 1949 as Camaridium imbricatum drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium imbricata drawing fide; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camaridium imbricatum var iguapense drawing ok; Flora Brasilica Vol XII VII 115-147 Hoehne 1953 as Camridium imbricatum var carinatum drawing ok; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville and Garay 1959 as M jenischiana drawing fide; Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Part 4 Foldats 1970 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela, An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as M jenischiana drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 154 Dodson 1980 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Series II plate 0255 Dodson & Vasquez 1989 drawing fide; Native Colombian Orchids Vol 3 COS 1991 photo fide; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing maybe; Las Orquideas del Peru Bezverhov 2011 photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 as Camarisium imbricatum photo fide
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