Malaxis andicola (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891 Original Drawing by © Padre Pedro Ortiz Conserved at the Herbario de la Universidad Javeriana Bogota Colombia

Common Name The Andes Living Malaxis

Flower Size .25" [6 mm]

Found in Ecuador and Peru in upper montane grasslands at elevations of 1500 to 3850 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with caespitose, pyriform psuedobulbs enveloped by imbricate sheaths with the upermost being leafbearing and carrying 2, subopposite, ovate, acute, thin, venation obvious, cuneate basally in to the elongate, petillate, imbricate leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, apical, to 3.4 [8 cm] long, many flowered, subumbellate inflorescence with non-resupinate flowers.

Synonyms *Microstylis andicola Ridl. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 515 Dodson 1989; Native Ecuadorian Orchids vol 3 Dodson 2002

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