dimanche 10 octobre 2010

Maxillaria variabilis


En fleur: octobre 2010
 Partial shade, cool to hot temperature, flower any time
Found from Mexico Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Ecuador as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial, lithophytic or epiphytic, solitary leafed species is found on or below trees in open or dense humid forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters with simple or branched rhizomes carrying subclustered, ovoid to ellipsoid pseudobulb 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.