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Malaxis soulei

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Type? of Microstylis montana Engelmann ex Rothrock [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Isotype of Microstylis montana Engelmann ex Rothrock [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Type? of Malaxis soulei L. O. Williams [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Filed as Malaxis soulei L.O. Williams [family ORCHIDACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Malaxis soulei L. O. Williams [family ORCHIDACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Malaxis soulei
Common name
  • Mountain malaxis, Flora of North America Vol. 26

Flora

Entry for Malaxis soulei L. O. Williams [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 26,
Names
Malaxis soulei L. O. Williams [family ORCHIDACEAE], Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., 21: 343. 1934
Microstylis montana Rothrock [family ], Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv., Wheeler, 264. 1879
Achroanthes montana (Rothrock) Greene [family ORCHIDACEAE]
Malaxis montana (Rothrock) Kuntze [family ORCHIDACEAE], 1891. not Blume 1826
Treatment Author(s)
Paul M. Catling
Lawrence K. Magrath
Information
Plants 11–60 cm. Pseudobulbs 5–15 mm diam. Leaves 1, at middle or proximal 1/3 of stem, sheathing leaf bases persistent, shredding; blade ovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, keeled abaxially, 2.4–15 × 1–5.2(–6) cm, apex acute. Inflorescences spicate racemes, rachis thick, slightly ridged or fluted, 6–22 cm; floral bracts triangular to lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm; pedicels 1.3–1.7 mm. Flowers 40–160, not resupinate, green to yellowish green; dorsal sepal ovate to elliptic, 1.5–2.8 × 0.8–1.3 mm, apex acuminate; lateral sepals ovate to elliptic, falcate, 1.5–2.8 × 0.8–1.3 mm, apex acuminate; petals strongly reflexed, filiform to linear, falcate, 1.3–2 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acuminate; lip suborbiculate-ovate to subquadrangular-ovate, 1.5–2.8 × 1.3–2.2(–2.5) mm, base hastate-auriculate, apex obliquely 3-dentate or retuse with apiculum in sinus; disc deeply concave, 5-veined; column 0.2–0.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm; pollinia yellow. Capsules ascending, ellipsoid, 7 × 3 mm.
Phenology
jul-aug (summer), sep (fall)
Altitude range
2000–3000 m;
Distribution
MexicoCentral America.USA Ariz.USA N.Mex.USA Tex.
Discussion
Malaxis soulei grows in the Santa Catalina, Santa Rita, and Chiricahua mountains in Arizona, and in the Davis Mountains in Texas.
The flowers of Malaxis soulei are retained on the axis until the capsules are fully developed, unlike M. corymbosa and some other species where the flowers fall quickly if not fertilized. The apparently sessile flowers are a very distinctive characteristic of this species. The central apiculum of the lip may be obsolete, and the apex thus retuse.
The name Malaxis macrostachya has been applied to M. soulei (C. A. Luer 1975). It is a nomen confusum, however, and it is not clearly applicable to this species (L. O. Williams 1965).

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