Malaxis pandurata (Schltr.) Ames 1922

Drawing by © Ames

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Common Name The Lute Shaped Malaxis [refers to the lip shape]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama and Ecuador in pluvial and cloud forests at elevations around 900 to 1700 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with pseudobulbs carrying a single, ovate, cordate, abruptly acuminate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the spring and later summer on a terminal, erect, 6 to 10" [15 to 25 cm] long, subumbellate, many flowered inflorescence carrying green, resupinate flowers.

Similar to both M simmillima and M macrostachya but differs in the pandurate-subquadrate lip with a tri-lobulate apex."Szlatchetko & Kolanowska

Synonyms Malaxis harlingii Dodson 1994; Malaxis tuerckheimii (Schltr.) Ames 1922; *Microstylis pandurata Schltr. 1906; Microstylis tuerckheimii Schltr. 1918

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI

Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 3: 77 Schlechter 1906 as Microstylis pandurata

Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 382 Schlechter 1918 as Microstylis tuerkheinii;

* Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 84 Ames 1922;

Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 35: 85 Ames 1922

Orquideologia 19: 55 Dodson 1994 as Malaxis harlingii;

Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003;

Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018;

Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:156 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 as Microstylis pandurata drawing fide

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