Malaxis aurea Ames 1923

Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Golden Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a stem carrying at midstem, a single, suborbicular, obtuse, parrellel to the substrata, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, umbellate, several flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical, successively flowered whorl.

Synonyms Microstylis guatemalensis Schltr.1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; . Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correll 1952; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 832 Hamer 1983 drawing fide

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