Maxillaria houtteana
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Maxillaria houtteana, Reichb. f. Fig. 2338. Rhizome erect or ascending, clothed with brown sheaths: pseudobulbs 2-2½in. long, linear-oblong, compressed: lvs. solitary, 6 in. long, linear, obtuse, keeled: scape l½−2 in. long; fls. nearly 2 in. across; sepals ovate-lanceolate, dirty yellow outside, red-purple within, with a yellow margin and spotted below; petals smaller, colored like the sepals; labellum without lateral lobes, oblong-obtuse, yellow with red-brown spots, and an ill-defined callus on the base. April. Guatemala and Venezuela. B.M. 7533.—Fls. last about a month in the coolhouse.
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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