Malaxis porphyrea (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891

Plant and Flowers in situ Arizona Photos by Carl Luer © and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Cold EARLY Summer EARLYFall

Common Name The Puprle Malaxis

Flower Size .16" [4mm]

Found in New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico in high plateau as a medium sized, cold growing terrestrial with a swollen at the base stem carrying a single, light green, ovate-elliptic, keeled beneath, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the early summer through early fall on an erect, terminal, slender, to 16" [40 cm] long, 65 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate floral bracts carrying reddish purple flowers.

Synonyms Achroanthes porphyrea (Ridl.) Wooton & Standl. 1913; Achroanthes purpurea Greene 1891; Malaxis purpurea Kuntze 1891; *Microstylis porphyrea Ridl. 1888; Microstylis purpurea S.Watson 1883; Tamayorkis porphyrea (Ridl.) Salazar & Soto Arenas 2011

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Native Orchids fo the United Sataes and Canada Luer 1975 as M ehrenbergii photo/drawing fide;

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