Malaxis maianthemifolia Cham. & Schltdl. 1831
Plant ensitu Costa Rica Photo by © Walter Schug and His MesoAmerican Orchid Page
Common Name The Maianthemum-Like Malaxis
Flower Size .1" [2mm]
Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua in wet montane forests at elevations of 1500 to 2800 meters as a miniature 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 Achroanthes maianthemifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Greene 1891; Dienia cordata (Rchb.f.) Lindl. 1838; Malaxis cochleariifolia A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Malaxis ichthiorhynca A.Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Microstylis cochleariifolia (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f. 1850; Microstylis cordata (Lindl.) Rchb.f. 1861; Microstylis elegantula Schltr. 1906; Microstylis ichthyorhyncha (A.Rich. & Galeotti) Rchb.f. 1866; Microstylis maianthemifolia (Cham. & Schltdl.) Rchb.f. 1850;
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 as M majanthefolia; Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 834 Hamer 1983 as M majanthefolia
