Malaxis sodiroi (Schltr.) Dodson 1989 SECTION Umbellatae SERIES Umbellatae
Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
Drawing by © Schlechter
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Common Name Sodiro's Malaxis
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm] long
Found in Magdalena, Antioquia and Valle de Cauca departments of Colombia and central Ecuador in upper montane forests at elevations of 900 to 1700 meters as a warm to cool growing terrestrial with caespitose, pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous and carrying 2, subopposite, ovate, acute, thin, obvious venation, cuneate below into the sessile base leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on an erect, terminal, to 6" [15 cm] long, subumbellate, rachis 1.2" [3 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence with triangular, ovate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts carrying small, nonresupinate flowers.
"Similar to M hastilabia but differs in the larger leaves, obtuse lip apex and obscure basal auricles." Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023
Synonyms *Microstylis sodiroi Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 526 Dodson 1989 drawing fide;
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 202 photo fide;
The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:152 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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