Colombian Orchid
 

Can anyone identify this orchid? Taken at 2100m, Western Cordillera. Apologize for poor image of the flower.

It's a Maxillaria species of some sort.

I may have seen this species before, but I don't recall.

Ok thank you.

One black flower and one white flower coming off the same bulb?

I´m not sure. The stem bases are burried in a bll of moss.

I'd say the black / brown flower is wilted.

I would too, but it doesnt look wilted and there is another one in what looks to be a tight bud stage on the right hand of the photo.

You might want to check if it might also belong to the genus Nidema.

The white flower may be Maxillaria acuminata. The dark flower is either a separate species (Max. nigrescens?)or a flower to which something has happened.

Here is a photo taken a couple of days later with more flowers in bloom.

Tehre are almost certainly two different species growing together here.

Na don't think so and I'd also stick with Maxilaria as there are multiple flowers are comming from the base of the bulb.

There is no Maxillaria that I know of that has both white and dark flowers.

The dark flowers are the light flowers that are wilted.

Here are close ups of the two "black" flowers. They both were in this same condition at the time when all the "white" flowers were still unopened buds. Could they just be flowers that never developed?

Looks like the dark ones just blasted O.o What ever it is, it's a very intriguing species :biggrin:

It does look from the pictures like these are flowers that never opened but blasted.

What does "blasted" mean in orchid speak?

Means they've turned brown and died without ever opening.

Thought so but wanted to be sure.