Maxillaria sophronitis

"Maxillaria sophronitis (Rchb.f.) Garay is native to North Venezuela. These orchids grow in mountain rainforests or on their outskirts, at heights of 760-1520 m. They are found mainly in the coastal mountains, but they were also found further away from the shores, inland."

Maxillaria sophronitis (Rchb.f.) Garay, Bot. Mus. Leafl. 18: 208 (1958).

Maxillaria sophronitis (Rchb.f.) Garay, Photo by Mihály Visnyei

its native range is Colombia to Venezuela.

Latin Name: 

Maxillaria sophronitis (Rchb.f.) Garay 

Family: 

Orchidaceae Juss.

Synonym:

Aucellia sophronitis (Rchb.f.) Szlach. & Sitko

Maxillaria ruberrima var. sophronitis (Rchb.f.) M.Wolff & O.Gruss

Ornithidium sophronitis Rchb.f.

English Name:

The Sophronitis-Like Maxillaria.

Description: 

With a rhizome enveloped by brown sheaths carrying ovoid, compressed, dull brown pseudobulbs subtended by 1 or 2 leaf bearing sheaths and carrying a single, apical, oblong-elliptic, minutely apiculate, coriaceous leaf that blooms in the fall and early winter, dwarfing the plant, on a basal, 4 cm long, single flowered inflorescence arising on a mature, prominent, unifoliate pseudobulb as a new growth arises that is subtended by a floral bract.

Distribution:

Colombia, Venezuela.

Ecological:

In cloud forests at altitudes of 750 to 1700 m as a dwarf sized, mat forming, cool to warm growing species.

Flowering times:

Bloome in the fall and early winter.

Flower size:

1.5 mm

Cultivation:

Optimal temperatures between 20 and 26 ° C and high humidity. In the terrarium it can be placed in the middle or in the upper area of ​​the terrarium.

Typus:

Reference: 

- theplantlist.org

- https://www.ipni.org/n/155290-2

- http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:155290-2

- https://www.premiumbuces.com/en/maxillaria-sophronitis/

- https://travaldo.blogspot.com/2018/02/maxillaria-sophronitis-care-and-culture.html

- http://www.orchidspecies.com/maxsophronituspl.htm.