Malaxis yanganensis Dodson 1994 SECTION Umbellatae SERIES Umbellatae
Drawing by Calaway Dodson
Common Name The Yangana Malaxis [A town in southern Ecuador]
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Loja province of Ecuador at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect, stout, pseudobulbous stem enveloped completely by an acuminate sheath and carrying 2, apical, suborbicular to ovate, acuminate, abruptly narrowing below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, 6.8" [17 cm] long, rachis .4" [1 cm] long, densely, subumbellate, many flowered inflorescence with small green flowers.
Similar to M M excavata but the leaves are broadly ovate vs narrowly ovate and the apex of the lip is retuse and 4 lobulate versus sharply three lobed. Also similar to M panamensis but differs in the smaller lip [2 x 1.2 mm] vs 3.5 x 4mm] , and the form , rectangular versus oblong-triangular.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
*Orquideologia 19: 59 Dodson 1994
Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 2002 drawing fide
Materials to the Orchid Flora of Colombia Vol IV:135 Szlatchetko & Kolanowska 2023 drawing fide
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