Malaxis aurea Ames 1923

Plant and Flowers in situ Costa Rica

Photos by © Bogarin, Used under permission of the Epidendra Website CR

Common Name The Golden Malaxis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica at elevations around 200 to 1500 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with a stem carrying at midstem, a single, suborbicular, obtuse, parrellel to the substrata, basally clasping leaf that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, 4" [10 cm] long, umbellate, several flowered inflorescence holding the flowers in an apical, successively flowered whorl.

Synonyms Microstylis guatemalensis Schltr.1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI Lankester's Epidendra Website CR ; . Orchids of Guatemala Ames & Correll 1952; Las Orquedias De El Salvador Vol 2 Hamer 1974 drawing/photo ok; Las Orquedias de El Salvador Vol 3 Hamer 1981 drawing fide; Icones Planetarum Tropicarum Plate 832 Hamer 1983 drawing fide; Manual de Plantas de Costa Rica Vol 3 Hammel, Grayum, Herrera and Zamora 2003; AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #1 2013 photo fide; Orchid Genera and Species in Guatemala Archila, Szlachchetko, Chiron, Lipinska, Mystkowska and Bertolini 2018; Vanishing Beauty, Native Costa Rican Orchids Vol 2 Lacaena to Pteroglossa Pupulin 2020 photo fide

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