Maxillaria variabilis

Maxillaria variabilis

Maxillaria variabilis var yellow

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The Variable Maxillaria

Found from Mexico Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador on or below trees in open or dense humid forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial, lithophytic or epiphytic, solitary leafed species with simple or branched rhizomes carrying subclustered, ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulbs subtended by several sheaths and carrying a single, apical, linear or linear-oblong, subcoriaceous, grass-green acute to obtuse leaf that blooms throughout the year with several scarious sheaths that carry the slender, to 2" [to 5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by several, thin, scarious, transluscent, lanceolate, acuminate bracts with variable colored, long-lasting flowers.

M curtipes is often given as a synonym of this species and it is most likely correct but I have kept them separate at this time. M variabilis differs from the similar M caespitifica but it is a smaller plant with smaller green flowers, M costaricensis has green to cream colored flowers stained with red and comes from much wetter areas

Synonyms Maxillaria angustifolia Hooker 1841; Maxillaria chiriquensis Schlechter 1922; Maxillaria lyoni Lindley 1845; Maxillaria panamensis Schltr. 1922; Maxillaria revoluta Kl. 1852; Maxillaria variabilis subvar. lutea A.H.Kent 1893; Maxillaria variabilis var. unipunctata Lindl. 1838; Maxillariella panamensis (Schltr.) Szlach. & Sitko 2012; Maxillariella variabilis (Bateman ex Lindl.) M.A. Blanco & Carnevali 2007; Maxillariella variabilis var. unipunctata (Lindl.) Solano 2011

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