Ilustraciones por Sylvia StrigariMaxillaria rodrigueziana J.T. Atwood
& Mora-Ret., Icones Plantarum Tropicarum
14(1):t. 1361. 1989. Type: Panamá. Province
of Coclé: El Copé on the Pacific side ½-hour
walk from the sawmill, elevation 2,400 feet
(730m),October 16, 1979, T. Antonio 2137
(holotype, MO; isotype, SEL).
Epiphytic, sympodial, caespitose, large
herb, up to 50 cm tall. Roots growing
from the rhizome at the base of the
pseudobulb, fleshy, white, up to 1 mm in
diameter. Rhizome short, stout, concealed
by appressed, imbricating, scarious sheaths.
Pseudobulbs apically unifoliate, ovoid,
rugose, 5–7 × 3–4 cm, subtended by
one large, lanceolate-triangular, obtuse,
imbricating, scarious sheath. Leaves elliptic,
coriaceous, obtuse to rounded, grass green,
blade 15–30 × 4.5–7.5 cm, supported
by a distinct, thick petiole 3–11 cm long.
Inflorescence 1–3 per pseudobulb, singleflowered, erect, growing from the base of
the newly developingpseudobulbs,up to 20
cm long; covered by 4–6, thin, imbricating,
tightly adpressed bracts. Floral bracts
much longer than the ovary, lanceolate,
acute, conduplicate, apically loose, to 6 cm
long, translucent. Pedicellate ovary teretesubclavate, ca. 2.5 cm long.UCR::Vicerrectoría de Investigación::Unidades de Investigación::Ciencias Agroalimentarias::Jardín Botánico Lankester (JBL
