Maxillaria hematoglossa A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845 sect. Cucullatae Christenson 2013
Photos by © Gerry Sinclair
Photo by Rod Rice
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Common Name The Blood Red Lipped Maxillaria
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica in deciduous forests at elevations around 1000 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, cool growing epiphyte that is often confused with Maxillaria cuccullata but differs in the yellow striping and spots. The plant has clustered, ovoid, strongly compressed, sulcate pseudobulbs carrying a single, deciduous, apical, slender, plicate, dorsally carinate, apically emarginate and rounded, conduplicate below into the base leaf and blooms in the spring through fall on a basal, erect, 5.2" [13 cm] long inflorescence that arises on a new growth and is completely enveloped by inflated, tubular bracts and carries a single flower.
Often cited as a synonym of Maxillaria cucullata but I will leave it separate until more information is available.
Synonyms Camaridium hematoglossum (A.Rich. & Galeotti) M.A.Blanco 2013; Camaridium punctostriatum (Rchb.f.) Soto Arenas 2008; Psittacoglossum hematoglossum (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Psittacoglossum punctostriatum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Psittacoglossum rubrilabium (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing/photo fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum plate 857 Dodson 1983 drawing fide; An Introdution to the Orchids of Mexico Wiard 1987 photo good; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018
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