Maianthemum amoenum is a perennial flowering plant, growing as an epiphyte on trees in cloud forests[2] from Mexico south to Honduras.

Roots grow scattered evenly along densely clumped, rounded rhizomes.

The flowers are cup-shaped and made up of lavender to pink-white tepals up to 6.5 mm long with stamens inserted at the base.

It has been found in El Salvador, Guatemala (the Totonicapán area), Honduras and in the Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas states of Mexico.

[3] Maianthemum amoenum usually grows as an epiphyte on canopy trees of the cloud forest at 2300 - 3300 m elevation.