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Old 12-21-2006, 12:58 PM
David Morris David Morris is offline
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Default Not variabilis, what is shunkeana???

What is your source for the name shunkeana? I don't find it any where. Not even in W3Tropicos . That usually means it is a unpublished name (although they have been in error before). Until I can find it I cannot rule it out. As for variabilis I have included 2 pictures of 2 different color forms of variabilis. the size of the plant is wrong for that as well as the morphology of both plant and flower and flower size. The flower in the picture of the unknown is about 2" tall. The plant is about 10" (including pseudobulb) and caespitose in growth habit
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A tough one. Maxillaria species (PERU)-maxillaria-variabilis-1.jpg   A tough one. Maxillaria species (PERU)-maxillaria-variabilis-cleo-may.jpg  
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