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Maxillaria schunkeana Campacci & Kautsky

Black orchid

Orchidaceae · Brazil Southeast · listed by its genus as an orchid

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Maxillaria schunkeana (syn. Brasiliorchis schunkeana) is a species of orchid. The colors of its flower are very close to black, but it is actually a very dark purple-red, giving the impression of a black flower.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Maxillaria schunkeana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Grouped as an orchid, listed under the genus Maxillaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.
How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Group. Listed under the genus Maxillaria in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “pseudobulbous epiphyte”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeBrazil Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“pseudobulbous epiphyte” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 2 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Maxillaria 93 in the reference

Maxillaria acuminata Maxillaria acuminata Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMaxillaria acutifolia Maxillaria acutifolia Rufous tiger orchid Photo: CC BY, Samuel Peláez VélezMaxillaria adendrobium Maxillaria adendrobium Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY, J. L. Gómez-HechavarríaMaxillaria aggregata Maxillaria aggregata Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Thibaud AronsonMaxillaria alba Maxillaria alba Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMaxillaria aurea Maxillaria aurea Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMaxillaria bradei Maxillaria bradei Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Diego F. Cisneros-HerediaMaxillaria brasiliensis Maxillaria brasiliensis Orchidaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedMaxillaria chrysantha Maxillaria chrysantha Orchidaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, bruno_san1409Maxillaria coccinea Maxillaria coccinea Scarlet Flame Orchid Photo: CC BY, Matteo Bellucci Maxillaria costaricensis Orchidaceae Maxillaria crassifolia Maxillaria crassifolia Hidden orchid Photo: CC BY, keesgroenendijk all 94 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Bolbidium schunkeanum; Brasiliorchis schunkeana. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Orchidaceae
Described by
Campacci & Kautsky
Native to
Brazil Southeast
Wild records
2 in range · 1 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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