Malaxis wendlandii (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1946 Photos by © Daniel Jimenez

Common Name or Meaning Wendland's Malaxis [German Orchid Collector in Mexico 1800's]

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica, Panama and Venezuela at elevations of 1200 to 2200 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with spherical pseduobulbs enveloped by a net-like whitish sheath and carrying 1 to rarely 2, apical, elliptic, acute gradually narrowing below into the petiolate base leaf that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, racemose, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Leptorchis wendlandii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Liparis wendlandii Rchb.f. 1866

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969; The Orchids of El Salvador Hamer Vol 3 1981

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