Malaxis umbelliflora Sw. 1788 SECTION Umbellatae SERIES Umbellatae
Photos by © Saint-Claude and The Images de Guadeloupe Website
TYPE Drawing by O Swartz and The Wikipedia Orchid Website
Drawing by Ernesto Foldats redrawn by S Nowak
THROUGH EARLY 
Common Name The Umbelled Flower Malaxis
Flower Size small
Found in in Cuba, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Venezuela at elevations of 400 to 1300 as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, fleshy, basally somewhat thickened inot a pseudobulb stem enveloped by 2 to 3, imbricating, herbaceous sheaths and carrying 2, auriculate, opposite to subopposite, rather broadly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute, basally contracted into a short, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through early winter on an elongate, angular, glabrous, to 10" [to 25 cm] long, congested, subumbellate, densely many flowered inflorescence with triangular-subulate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying small flowers.
Similar to M hoppii but differs in the acute to apiculate lip apex and the central cavity is much smaller.
Synonyms Achroanthes umbellulata (Sw.) Greene 1891; Malaxis umbellulata Sw.1806; Microstylis umbelliflora (Sw.) Hitchc. 1893; Microstylis umbellulata (Sw.) Lindl. 1830
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI
*Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 119 Sw. 1788 drawing fide
Fl. Ind. Occid. 3: 1995 Sw. 1806 as M umbellulata;
Pittonia 2: 184 Greene 1891 as Achroanthes umbellulata;
Rep. (Annual) Missouri Bot. Gard. 4: 132 Hitchc. 1893 as Microstylis umbelliflora;
Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 19 Lindl. 1830 as Microstylis umbellulata;
Flora of Jamaica Fawcett & Rendle 1910;
Flore Descriptive des Antilles Francaises H. Stehle 1939 as Microstylis umbelliflora;
Flora de Venezuela Volumen XV Primera Parte Foldats 1969 drawing good;
Flora of the Lesser Antilles Garay & Sweet 1974 drawing ok;
Orchidaceae Antillanae Nir 2000;
The Orchids of Cuba Llamacho & Larramendi 2005 photo fide;
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:146 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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