Ornithidium nubigenum
Common name 2
The Cloud Growing Maxillaria
Synonyms 2
Maxillaria nubigena
Location 2
Peru; Colombia; Ecuador; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of
Habitat 2
Montane and cloud forest. Altitudes of 800 to 2,900 meters. It has been collected in a wide variety of habitats, both in primary and secondary forests and on steep shrubby slopes, lightly vegetated stony hillsides and along roads.
Description 2
A very large, pendant growing, fan-shaped epiphyte with or without psuedobulbs with a woody, very stiff, lusterous chestnut brown, rhizome enveloped completely by tan, close, tubular, approximate, persistent, rugose sheaths from which arise 7 to 12 linear to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, attenuate, concave, stiff, rugose, conduplicate below into the base leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a short, axillary, fasciculate, bracteate, single flowered inflorescence arising on a leafy non-pseduobulbous growth with up to 8 to 10 flowers in a group arising from 4 to 5 chartaceous, oblong-elliptic, acuminate, carinate bracts with the flower, subtended by a minute floral bract, held below the leaves.
References 2
http://www.orchidspecies.com/maxnubigena.htm
Romand-Monnier, F. & Chadburn, H. 2013. Ornithidium nubigenum. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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| Color | pink |
|---|---|
| Family | Orchidaceae |
