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Maxillariella anceps is an orchid species identified by (Ames & C.Schweinf.) M.A.Blanco & Carnevali in 2007. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Maxillaria anceps.
ORIGIN: Found from Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Chiapas States of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in wet forests on tree trunks and larger branches at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small to large sized, warm growing epiphyte with a rhizome completely enveloped by scarious, imbricating sheaths and giving rise to laterally compressed, ancipitous, longitudinally ridged, ovate pseudobulbs partially enveloped basally by several, imbricating, scarious, leaf-less sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear-ligulate, obliquely retuse apically and conduplicate below into the short, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the winter on basal, through the leafless sheath, 2 [5 cm] long, single, flowered inflorescence arising on the newest mature pseudobulb and carrying 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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