Malaxis carnosa (Kunth) C.Schweinf. 1941

Inflorescence Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page

Full Shade Warm ColdSummer

Common Name The Fleshy Malaxis

Flower Size .1" [2mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua at elevations of 1000 to 2800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial orchid with a subterrranean, suborbicular, thickened corm, a single, elliptic, acute to rounded, gradually narrows below into the conduplicate, elongate, petilate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a erect, 10 3/4" [27 cm] long, many flowered infloresence

Synonyms Dienia calycina Lindl. 1830; Malaxis calycina (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis gracilis (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Malaxis monticola (Schltr.) Ames 1922; Microstylis calycina (Lindl.) Ridl. 1888; Microstylis gracilis Ridl. 1888; Microstylis microtoides Schltr. 1918; Microstylis monticola Schltr. 1906; Serapias parisitica Pavone ex Ridl. 1888; *Stelis carnosa Kunth 1816;

References Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on Las Qrquedias de El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 834 Hamer 1983