Malaxis brachystachys (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891 Photo by © Guillermo Ibarra Manríquez and the CONABIO Orchid Page

Common Name The Short Spiked Malaxis

Flower Size .08" [2mm]

Found in Arizona, Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in deciduous forests as a miniature to medium sized terrestrial with a globose pseudobulbous growth giving rise to a single, apical, erect, cordiforme basally, ovate, obtuse to acute, conduplicate into the elongate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on an erect, 8" [20 cm] long, subumbellate several flowered inflorescence with the flowers all held at the apex

Synonyms Achroanthes corymbosa (S.Watson) Greene 1891; Malaxis corymbosa (S.Watson) Kuntze 1891; *Microstylis brachystachys Rchb.f. 1850; Microstylis corymbosa S.Watson 1883

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 as M corymbosa drawing/photo hmm; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 as m corymbosa drawing hmm; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1034 Hamer 1984 as M corymbosa drawing ok

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