Maxillaria ringens 'Aloha'

Orchid

S. Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru as well as Trinidad in tall evergreen forests and dense tropical forests at elevations of 320 to 1700 meters and as a medium to large sized, hot to cool growing, unifoliate epiphyte with close set, prominent, ovoid to reniform, compressed pseudobulbs enveloped by a series of basal, papery bracts and carrying a single, apical, linear-lanceolate, acute-acuminate, conduplicate below into the narrow, elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a basal, slender, 2 to 5" [5 to 12.5 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with tubular floral bracts half the length of the ovary that arises on a mature pseudobulb with the sweet scented, long-lasting, waxy flowers with variable colors held above the leaf.