Malaxis ribana Espejo & López-Ferr. 2002

TYPE Drawing by © Espejo & López-Ferr. 2002 and Acta Bot. Mex. 61: 28 R.Jiménez, L.Sánchez & García-Cruz 2002

Common Name Riba's Habenaria [Dr Ramon Ribas Nava Esparza - Mexican Botanist passed in 2000]

Flower Size .2 to .24" [5 to 6 mm]

Found in Morelos state of Mexico as a small to medium sized, cool growing terrestrial with an ovoid to oblong pseudobulb enveloped by a single, tublar, obtuse, acute sheath giving rise to an erect stem basally 2 sheathed and carrying 2, narrowly elliptic, to elliptic, smetimes broadly ovate, obtuse to rounded, acuminate, the base decurrent, margin entire leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, racemose, longer than the leaf, peduncle 6 to 11.2" [15 to 28 cm] long, rachis 3.4 to 8" [8.5 to 20 cm] long, more or less dense, 42 to 150 flowered inflorescence with ascending, green, triangualr, acute, hyaline, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying yellow green, non-resupinate flowers.

"Can be confused with M myurus but differs in the long pedicel, the triangular lip when extended, deeply concave and hugging the column in natural position, and a laxer inflorescence that is not completely covered by the flowers." Espejo & López-Ferr. 2002

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

* Acta Bot. Mex. 61: 28 R.Jiménez, L.Sánchez & García-Cruz 2002

Acta Bot. Mex. 61: 29 R.Jiménez, L.Sánchez & García-Cruz 2002 Drawing fide

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