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Orchid Species: Maxillaria pumila

(This name is currently accepted by Kew.)

Maxillaria pumila is an orchid species identified by Hook. in 1837.
Genus
Maxillaria (Max.)
Grex
pumila
(name currently accepted by Kew)
Parents
Species
Author
Hook.
Year
1837
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ORIGIN: SE Brazil at elevations of 700 to 750 meters.

DESCRIPTION: Mini-miniature to miniature sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with round-oblong, slightly compressed, longitudinally sulcate pseudobulbs enveloped by several imbricate, becoming brown, deciduous, leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, fleshy, linear, conduplicate and somewhat attenuate below into the base leaf that blooms in the summer on an axillary, .15 to .2 inches [3 to 6 mm] long, single flowered inflorescence completely enveloped by the sheaths.

FLOWER SIZE: 0.2 inches [5 mm] -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Maxillaria Max pusilla 1908 Rolfe
Add+ Christensonella Chnl plebeia 2012 (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko
Add+ Christensonella Chnl minuta 2006 (Cogn.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Smiszek
Add+ Christensonella Chnl pumila 2006 (Hook.) Szlach., Mytnik, Górniak & Smiszek
Add+ Christensonella Chnl spannagelii 2012 (Hoehne) Szlach. & Sitko
Add+ Maxillaria Max plebeia 1859 Rchb.f.
Add+ Maxillaria Max funerea 1842 Lindl.
Add+ Maxillaria Max minuta 1904 Cogn. in C.F.P.von Martius & auct. suc. (eds.)
Add+ Maxillaria Max parva 1895 Rolfe
Add+ Maxillaria Max plebeja 1859 Rchb.f.
Add+ Maxillaria Max spannagelii 1930 Hoehne
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Max. pumila 'Felix' (2 awards from 2017 to 2018) Chnl. pumila 'Martin' (2 awards in 2012) Max. minuta 'Borghild' (2 awards in 1974) Max. pumila 'In Situ' (2019) Max. pumila 'Martin' (2018) Max. pumila 'Woodvale' (2017) Chnl. pumila 'Volksdorf' (2014) Chnl. pumila 'Monika' (2012) Max. pumila 'Memoria Al May' (2010) Max. pumila 'Baby Birds' (2001) Max. plebeja 'Russ' (1999) Max. minuta 'Mt. Airy' (1998) Max. minuta 'Renee' (1983)
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