Maxillaria parviflora (Poepp. & Endl.) Garay
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Orchidaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - Caespitose epiphytes with repent secondary stems concealed by brown, imbricate bracts, bearing compressed pseudobulbs 2.2-3 x 0.6-0.9 cm, becoming wrinkled with age. Leaves 1 per pseudobulb, linear, acute, keeled abaxially, 7- 20 X 0.8-1.8 cm. Inflorescences subsessile, simultaneously flowering fascicles at base of pseudobulbs. Flowers small, campanulate, white with yellow petals and lip; sepals elliptic, abruptly fleshy mucronulate, concave, 3-veined, 5 X 3.5 mm, the lateral sepals connate for half length; petals subsimilar to sepals, 4.5 X 2.5 mm; lip 3-lobed, 3.5 X 2.2 mm, the lateral lobes erect, obliquely obtuse triangular, the midlobe emarginate, the callus bilobed, central, rigidly fused to column foot; column short, 1.3 mm long.