| Nitidobulbon nasutum photo C. Solimbergo |
| (Maxillaria nasuta) |
| taxonomy | described by | (Rchb f.) Ojeda, Isidro & Carnevali, German |
| published in | Novon 19 (1) : 99 - 100, f . 1 . 19 mar 2009 | |
| Family | Orchdaceae | |
| Subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| Tribe | Cymbidieae | |
| Subtribe | Maxillariinae | |
| Genus | Nitidobulbon Ojeda, Carnevali & Romero 2009 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origin | humid evergreen forests, on trees trunks and branches, in Mexico, Costa Rica (Cartago), Guatemala, |
| Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Guyana, Suriname, Grenada, Venezuela, Colombia, | ||
| Ecuador (Zamora-Chinchipe), Peru (Cusco, Urabamba), Bolivia (Cochabamba, La Paz, Santa Cruz), | ||
| Brazil | ||
| altitude | 150 - 2483 m (500 - 8200 ft) | |
| habitat | climate informations from Cartago (Cartago, Costa Rica) | |
| Köppen climate classification : Cfb, humid subtropical climate in all seasons, with hot summers | ||
| the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 1200 m / 4000 ft) : | ||
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| photoperiod | in Cartago this orchid bloom with a photoperiod, that varies during the year, from 12 h 37 m' to 11 h 23 m' | |
| life form | epiphyte | |
| brightness | partial shade | |
| inflorescence | lenght | 7 - 9 cm (2.8 - 3.6"), basal |
| flores | 1 | |
| size | single flower 6 L 6 cm (2.4 L 2.4") | |
| duration | single flower ≈ 30 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth ≈ 15 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
