Malaxis brachystachys (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

Plant and Flowers in situ Arizona

Photos by © Carl Luer and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full Shade CoolSummer

Common Name The Short Spiked Malaxis

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in deciduous forests at elevations around 1750 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a globose pseudobulbous growth giving rise to a single, apical, erect, cordiform basally, ovate, obtuse to acute, conduplicate into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, subumbellate several flowered inflorescence with the flowers all held at the apex

Synonyms Achroanthes corymbosa (S.Watson) Greene 1891; Malaxis corymbosa (S.Watson) Kuntze 1891; *Microstylis brachystachys Rchb.f. 1850; Microstylis corymbosa S.Watson 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as M corymbosa drawing/photo hmm; The Native Orchids of the United States and Canada Luer 1975 as M corymbosa drawing/photos fide; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as m corymbosa drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1034 Hamer 1984 as M corymbosa drawing ok; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018

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