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Maxillaria rufescens

Maxillaria rufescens
Photo: Maarten Sepp, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Native range
Trop. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Maxillaria rufescens, the light fox-red maxillaria, is a species of orchid native to Trinidad and the Amazon Basin in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, The Guianas and Brazil. The plant grows at elevations of 200 to 2000 meters, and grows up to 11⁄4 inches (3 to 4 centimeters).

Other Maxillaria plants

Maxillaria echinophyta · Maxillaria uncata · Maxillaria amplifoliata · Maxillaria crassifolia · Maxillaria petiolaris · Maxillaria aureoglobula · Maxillaria carolii · Cowl Carrying Maxillaria · Crowded Tiger Orchid · Maxillaria desvauxiana · Maxillaria egertoniana · Maxillaria elluziae

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Maxillaria rufescens by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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