Malaxis bayardii
Malaxis bayardii | |
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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 2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ "Malaxis bayardii". Natural Resources Conservation Service PLANTS Database. USDA. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- ↑ Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
- ↑ Flora of North America Malaxis bayardii
- ↑ North American Orchid Conservation Center, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Go Orchids, Malaxis bayardii
- ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Rhodora 38(455): 402–404, 1936. description in Latin, commentary in English; small line drawings showing flowers
- ↑ Fernald, Merritt Lyndon. Rhodora 38(455): plate 446, 1936. photos of herbarium specimens, figures 1 and 2 at left
- ↑ Fernald, M. 1950. Gray's Manual of Botany (ed. 8) i–lxiv, 1–1632. American Book Co., New York.
- ↑ Catling, P. M. 1991. Systematics of Malaxis bayardii and M. unifolia. Lindleyana 6: 3–23.
External links
- United States Department of Agriculture Plants Profile
- Among Rhode Island Wildflowers, Malaxis bayardii
- Go Botany, New England Wild Flower Society, Malaxis bayardii
- New York Natural Heritage Program
- Go Orchids, North American Orchid Conservation Center
- Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
- Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife