Malaxis unifolia Michx. 1803
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Common Name The Single-Leafed Malaxis - The Green Adder's Mouth Orchid
Flower Size .1" to .2" [2 to 4 mm]
Found in the SE Eastern USA through Mexico and south to Honduras and El Salvador in dry woodlands and mesic pine flatwoods as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial occuring in deep shade an erect, terete stem carrying midway up, a single, ovate, keeled, swollen basally into a false bulb that blooms in the late winter and spring to summer on an erect, few to many [3 to 80] flowered, arranged in a packed raceme that elongates with age
Synonyms Achroanthes ophioglossoides (Muhl. ex Willd.) Raf. 1808; Achroanthes unifolia (Michx.) Raf. 1808; Malaxis grisebachiana (Fawc. & Rendle) Fawc. & Rendle 1910; Malaxis ophioglossoides Muhl. ex Willd. 1805; Malaxis thlaspiformis A. Rich. & Galeotti 1845; Microstylis grisebachiana Fawc. & Rendle 1909; Microstylis ophioglossoides (Muhl. ex Willd.) Nutt. ex Eaton 1822; Microstylis unifolia (Michx.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb. 1888
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Novo-Galaciana Vol 16 McVaugh 1985; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 1231 Dodson 1985; The Wild Orchids of Florida Brown 2002
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