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Orchid Species: Maxillaria hagsateriana
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Maxillaria hagsateriana is an orchid species identified by Soto Arenas in 1992.
ORIGIN: Found Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras in montane moist to wet forests at elevations of 1125 to 2700 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Giant sized, warm to cold growing epiphyte with erect to hanging stems enveloped by imbricate, conduplicate, disitichous, scarious sheaths giving rise at intervals, oblong-ovate, getting smaller towards the apex, flattened pseudobulbs carrying a single,a pical, erect, linear-oblong to linear-lanceolate, acute, obliquely retuse, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the summer to mid fall on a short, single flowered inflorescence produced in loose groups among the sheaths of the stem and arise when the pseudobulbsa are fully matured.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.25 inches [7.5 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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