Malaxis wendlandii (Rchb.f.) L.O.Williams 1946
Photos by © Daniel Jimenez
Photos by © Jimenez, Used under permission of Epidendra Website CR
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 1600 to 2000 meters as a miniature to 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, fall and winter on a terminal, erect, 2.4" [6 cm] long, racemose, 5 to 8 flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Crossoliparis wendlandii (Rchb.f.) Marg. 2009; Leptorchis wendlandii (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Liparis wendlandii Rchb.f. 1866
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Epidendra Website CR ; The Orchids of Panama L.O. Williams & P Allen 1946; Venezuelan Orchids Illustrated Vol 1 Dunsterville & Garay 1959 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 38 No 6 1969 as Liparis wendlandii; Flora de Venezuela Foldats Volumen XV Part 1 1969 drawing fide; Orchids of Venezuela An Illustrated Field Guide Vol 2 Dunsterville & Garay 1979 as Liparis wendlandii drawing fide; The Orchids of El Salvador Hamer Vol 3 1981 as Liparis wendlandii drawing/photo fide; Selbyana Vol 10 Orchids of Central America Hamer 1988 drawing good; Orchids of Venezuela [An illustrated field guide] Vol. 2 Ramiro and Carnevali 2000 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018 as Crossoliparis wendlandii; Orchids, A Colombian Treasure Vol 3 Ortiz & Uribe 2019 as Liparis wendlandii drawing/photo fide; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide
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