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Orchid Species: Maxillaria bradeorum
(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)
Maxillaria bradeorum is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) L.O.Williams in 1941.
ORIGIN: Found from Costa Rica and Panama in premontane and lower montane rain forests at elevations of 700 to 1800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium to giant sized, hot to warm growing, caespitose, unifoliate epiphyte and occasional terrestrial with decumbent canes comprised of successively arising shoots terminated by a ovoid to suborbicular, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by a few leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single [2], narrowly elliptic, gradually widening towards the apex, acute, gradually narrowing below i to the short, distinct, petiollate base leaf that blooms in the summer through fall on an axillary, 2.8 [7 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by subtending floral bracts.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.4 inches [1 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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