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Maxillaria oceophylla is an orchid species identified by A.G.Wilson in 1932. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria fucata.
ORIGIN: Found in Peru and Ecuador in gravel and sandy soils in wet montane forests at elevations of 2000 to 2800 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte or terrestrial on steep embankments with ovate, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped basally by 1 to 2 large foliaceous sheaths carrying a single, apical, oblong-lanceolate, stiff, coriaceous, acute leaf with a conduplicate base into an elongate, compressed, channeled petiole and a prominently carinate mid-vein that blooms in the fall in situ on an erect, basal, 7 1/5 [18 cm] long, single-flowered inflorescence arising on a newly matured pseudobulb and enveloped completely by 11 to 14, tubular, acuminate sheaths ans carrying heavy textured, fragrant flowers.
FLOWER SIZE: 1 inch [2.5 cm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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