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Orchid Species: Maxillaria miniata
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Maxillaria miniata is an orchid species identified by (Lindl.) L.O.Williams in 1941.
ORIGIN: Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Brazil at elevations of [1200] 2000 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Large to giant sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or humus loving terrestrial with an elongate stem enveloped completely by imbricate, scarious, conduplicate, leaf-bearing sheaths the older with deciduous leaves and in the apical portion carrying narrowly oblong, rounded apically leaves and has solitary, to aggregate in small clusters, ovoid to ovoid-elliptic, strongly compressed pseudobulbs carrying a single, apical and another that is partially developed that are coriaceous, linear to linear-oblong, obtuse to slighly emarginate leaves that blooms in the spring and early summer on a fasciculate, axillary, to 1.6 [4 cm] long, inflorescence arising on a mature stem.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.5 inches [1.25 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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