Malaxis bayardii

Malaxis bayardii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
Order: Asparagales
Family: Orchidaceae
Subfamily: Epidendroideae
Tribe: Malaxideae
Genus: Malaxis
Species: M. bayardii
Binomial name
Malaxis bayardii
Fernald
Synonyms[1]

Malaxis bayardii fo. kelloggiae P.M. Br.

Malaxis bayardii (Bayard's adder's-mouth orchid)[2] is a species of orchid native to northeastern North America. It is found from Massachusetts to North Carolina, with isolated populations in Ohio and Nova Scotia.[3] There are historical reports of the plant formerly growing in Vermont and New Jersey, but it seems to have been extirpated in those two states[1] It grows in dry, open woods and pine barrens at elevations of less than 600 m (2000 feet).[4][5]

Malaxis bayardii is a terrestrial herb up to 26 cm (10.4 inches) tall. It produces a pseudobulb up to 20 mm in diameter. It generally has only one leaf, occasionally two, about half way up the stem. Flowers are small and green, borne in a raceme of up to 70 flowers.[6][7][8][9]

References

  1. 1 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. ↑ "Malaxis bayardii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  4. ↑ Flora of North America Malaxis bayardii
  5. ↑ North American Orchid Conservation Center, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Go Orchids, Malaxis bayardii
  6. ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Rhodora 38(455): 402–404, 1936. description in Latin, commentary in English; small line drawings showing flowers
  7. ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Rhodora 38(455): plate 446, 1936. photos of herbarium specimens, figures 1 and 2 at left
  8. ↑ Fernald, M. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany (ed. 8) i–lxiv, 1–1632. American Book Co., New York.
  9. ↑ Catling, P. M. 1991. Systematics of Malaxis bayardii and M. unifolia. Lindleyana 6: 3–23.
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