Malaxis monophyllos (Pav ex Lindl.) Swartz 1800 Photo courtesy of T.H. Pain and The Orchids of France and Europe

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Common Name White Adder's Mouth - The Single Leaf Malaxis

Flower Size Less than 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Eastern Europe up to, but not including, the Low Countries, France, and Switzerland, and, to the south, the Balkans as well as into North America to the Great Lakes region as a cool to cold growing terrestrial orchid that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a 2 to 13" [5 to 15.5 cm] long, loosely many flowered, narrowly cylindric and elongated inflorescence with non resupinate flowers and is commonly known in the US as 'White Adder's Mouth'.

Synonyms Achroanthes cilifolia Raf. 1836; Acroanthes monophylla (Pav. ex Lindl.) Greene 1891; Dienia gmelinii Lindl. 1830; Epipactis monophylla (L.) F.W.Schmidt 1795; Malaxis arisanensis (Hayata) S.Y.Hu 1974; Malaxis brachypoda (A.Gray) Fernald 1926; Malaxis monophyllos var. brachypoda (A.Gray) P.Morris & Eames 1929; Malaxis monophyllos var. diphyllos (Cham.) Luer 1975; Malaxis taiwaniana S.S.Ying 1975; Microstylis arisanensis Hayata 1916; Microstylis brachypoda A.Gray 1836; Microstylis diphyllos Lindl. 1830; Microstylis monophyllos (Pav ex Lindl.) Lindley 1830; *Ophrys monophyllos Linne

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidiana Philipiniana Vol 1 Valmayor 1984; Flora Malesiana Orchids of the Philippines Vol I Agoo, Shuiteman and de Vogel 2003;

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