Malaxis lepidota (Finet) Ames 1922
Plant and Flowers in situ Jalisco Mexico Photos by Eduard Faria
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Common Name The Scaled Malaxis
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in Jalisco, Michoacan,Mexico, Morales, Oaxaca, Vera Cruz and Chiapas states of Mexico and Guatemala in pine oak forests at elevations of 1500 to 1900 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying a basal sheath and 2, ovate, obtuse leaves at about the middle and blooms on a terminal, 2 to 8" [5 to 20 cm] long, loosely few to 25 flowered, racemose inflorescence with narrowly triangular, acute floral bracts and large flowers for the genus bracts
Synonyms Malaxis macrantha Ames 1908; *Microstylis lepidota Finet 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana McVaugh 1985
