Malaxis sodiroi (Schltr.) Dodson 1989 Photo by © Alexander Hirtz
Photo by © Saul Altamirano A. and The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website
TYPE Drawing Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name Sodiro's Malaxis
Flower Size .1" [2.5 mm] long
Found in central Ecuador in upper montane forests at elevations of 1400 to 3000 meters as a cool to cold growing terrestrial with caespitose, pyriform pseudobulbs enveloped basally by imbricating sheaths with the uppermost being foliaceous and carrying 2, subopposite, ovate, acute, thin, obvious venation, cuneate below into the elongate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring through fall on an erect, terminal, to 6" [15 cm] long, subumbellate, many flowered inflorescence carrying nonresupinate flowers.
Synonyms *Microstylis sodiroi Schltr. 1921
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Icones Plantarum Tropicarum Plate 526 Dodson 1989 drawing fide; Native Ecuadorian Orchids Vol 3 Dodson 202 photo fide; The Parque Nacional Carrasco, Cochabamba Bolivia, Orquideas del Proyecto Hidroelectrico Ivirizu Website 2021 photo fide;
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