Malaxis moritzii (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Umbellatae SERIES Umbellatae
Photo by © Alexander Moran
Drawing by © Dunsterville and Garay
Common Name Moritz' Malaxis [German Orchid Collector in Venezuela later 1800's]
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru at elevations of 1100 to 4000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with elliptic-ovate pseudopbulbs carrying 2, ventrally shiny, dorsally greyer and rather dull, mid nreve sulcate, dorsally ribbed, broadly elliptic, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, peduncle to 6.8" [17 cm] long, angled, rachis short, spirally arranged, subumbellate, many flowered inflorescence with pale, lanceolate, triangular to triangular-ovate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small green flowers.
Synonyms Malaxis termensis (Kraenzl.) C.Schweinf. 1941; *Microstylis moritzii Ridl. 1888; Microstylis termensis Kraenzl. 1905
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 24: 330 Ridley 1888 as Microstylis moritzii
* Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 673 Kuntze 1891
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 1: 91 Kraenzl. 1905 as Microstylis termensis;
Bot. Mus. Leafl. 10: 33 C Schweinfurth 1941 as M termensis;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing good;
Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 6 Dunsterville ^ Garay 1976 drawing fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:125 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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