Malaxis brachyrrhynchos (Rchb.f.) Ames 1922

Another Angle Photo courtesy of © Edouard Faria

Common Name The Short-Beaked Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama in wet montane forests at elevations of 1800 to 2300 meteres as a large sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with thick, subterranean pseudobulbs enveloped completely by scarious sheaths and giving rise to 2, opposite, acute, dark green above and lighter green below, petiolate, basally clasping on the middle of the floral scape and blooming in the spring on a terminal, to 12" [30 cm] long, green, hexagonal, racemose, sub-umbellate, densely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms *Microstylis brachyrrhynchos Rchb.f. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquideas de El Salvador Vol III Hamer 1981; Orchids of Guatemala and Belize Ames & Correll 1985

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