Maxillaria aurea

Found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru in very wet windswept mesas with elfin forests at elevations around 2200 meters as a large, robust, cold growing, pseudomonopodial, without pseudobulbs, with a stem enveloped completely by imbricating, distichous sheaths carrying linear-lorate, basally channeled, apically long tapering into a sharp point leaves that blooms at least in the winter but more likely more often, on several per axil, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence concealed at the base by several long, scarious bracts and carrying yellow flowers.