Malaxis hieronymi (Cogn.) L.O.Williams 1939 SECTION Umbellatae SERIES Umbellatae
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Common Name Hieronymus' Malaxis
Flower Size
Found in Bolivia and Tucuman, Jujuy, Salta and Catamarca provinces of Argentina at elevations around 2800 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cold growing terrestrial with ovoid pseudobulbs carrying 2, apical, subopposite, ovate to ovate-oblong, obtuse, subrotund basally abruptly into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, rachis .2 to .4" [.5 to1 cm] long, umbellate, dense, many flowered inflorescence with ovate-triangular, acute, shorter then the pedicellate ovary and carrying pale yellow green flowers.
Synonyms *Microstylis hieronymi Cogn. 1895; Microstylis rupestris Griseb. 1879
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
Symb. ad Fl. Argent. 337 Griseb. 1879 as M rupestris [non Poepp. & Endl.]
Fl. Bras. 3(4): 279 Cogn 1895 as Microstylis hieronymi;
*Lilloa 4: 363 L O Williams 1939;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:137 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
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