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Copyright: Raimundo Mesquita (mesquens)
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| Genre: Plants |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2008-05-15 |
| Categories: Flowers |
| Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC LZ7 |
| Exposure: f/2.8, 1/80 seconds |
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| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2008-05-15 11:34 |
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Found in Brazil and Argentina as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte and occaisional lithophyte with erect, ovoid-conical to ovoid-oblong, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs that are enveloped basally by severeal scarious sheaths and carrying 1 to 2, coriaceous, linear-lanceolate, to linear-oblong, obtuse leaves that are attenuate into the petiole below and blooms in the winter and spring on a basal, erect, single flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Maxillaria hoehnei Schltr. 1921; Maxillaria kreysigii Hoffmanns. ex Regel 1856; Maxillaria leucocheila Hoffmannsegg 1843.
The specimen posted here is the Variety rupestris |
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