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Maxillaria friderici-caroli P.Ortiz, Orquideologia 18: 100 (1991).This name is accepted.

Basionym : Ornithidium lehmannii Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 486 (1899).

Award 20131952 CBR –

Maxillaria friderici-caroli

“Esperanza”

Five hundred seventy-five flowers on 25
inflorescence clusters; pseudobulbs ovoid spaced far apart on long rhizome; 2 apical
leaves surrounded by 4-8 foliaceous sheathes; inflorescence short, basal,
covered by bracts causing flowers to be clustered; flowers barely open,
concolor yellow becoming orange with age; anther cap red-brown; lip curved down
90 degrees; substance firm texture waxy; native to Colombia.

PNW

This one is complicated.

Here is the type description:

Here is what Eric's book says:

Maxillaria friderici-caroli Ortiz, Orquideología
18(1):100. 1991; Ornithidium

lehmannii Kraenzl., Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26:486.
1899. TYPE: COLOMBIA. Near Cordova and

Buenaventura, F. C. Lehmann 5197 (holotype: B, destroyed;
fragment: HBG).

Ascending epiphytes. Rhizome thick, woody, with triangular, keeled
bracts, producing pseudobulbs

at intervals, leafy at the base, the leaves obtusely bilobed at
the apex, 6 cm long, 0.8 cm wide.

Pseudobulbs oblong, compressed, unifoliate. Leaves one, not seen.
Inflorescences axillary

fascicles, covered with acute bracts. Flowers nodding, slightly
larger than those of M. densa Lindl.

Sepals and petals linear, acuminate, the sepals slightly broader
than the petals. Lip divided into a

hypochile and epichile, the hypochile obcordate, with a low
transverse callus across the base of the

epichile, the epichile broadly cordate, sharply acute, folded at
the apex with a keel beneath. Column

subequal to the hypochile; the anther moderately tall, the stipe
linear, the viscidium minute, the

pollinia 4, subequal.

Distribution: Colombia.

Etymology: Named to honor Friedrich Carl Lehmann (1850-1903) who
collected the type

specimen.

Illustrations: none.

This species is exceedingly difficult to interpret. It appears to
have been described from a quite

depauperate specimen and no measurements are given except for the
leaves. Future students should

consider this name when investigating M. aggregata (Kunth)
Lindl. and its allies.

The description presented here is a free translation of the
original, minimal Latin type description

and protologue. The fragment in Hamburg (HBG) is minimal and is
left for future students to

examine in thorough detail.

No elevation has been recorded for this species and nothing can be
said of its horticultural

Here is what Mario says:

I think this is Maxillaria nubigena (= Ornithidium nubigenum), but
I am not 100% sure because I have not been able to check the type in the
Reichenbach herbarium in Vienna. It is a close ally of M. aggregata (or it
could be a simple variation of the latter).

If my interpretation of M. nubigena is correct, the photo in Eric's book
labeled as M. nubigena is something else (M. aggregata or something related).

If you need a name, use Maxillaria cf. aggregata.

Saludos,

Mario

Here is what I want to do... confirm it as Maxillaria cf. aggregata, but put in that it was awarded as Maxillaria friderici-caroli

Maxillaria friderici-caroli, Award 20131952, has been
confirmed Maxillaria cf.
aggregata by SITF (April 2013). Please add to the description that it
was awarded as Maxillaria friderici-caroli.

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