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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Malaxis bayardii
|accepted_authority=Fernald
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Rhodora
|place=38: 402, fig. 1
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=plate
|place=446, figs. 1, 2. 1936
|year=1936
}}
|common_names=Bayard’s malaxis
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae;Malaxis;Malaxis bayardii
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malaxis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malaxis bayardii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 627
|treatment_page=page 630
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>9.3–25.6 cm. <b>Pseudobulbs</b> 5–20 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> 1(–2, rarely), near middle of stem; blade bright green, glossy, narrowly to broadly ovate, keeled abaxially, 1.7–3.8(–7) × 0.7–3.5(–4.3) cm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, 1–12 cm; floral bracts triangular, 0.9–1.6 mm; pedicels (3.8–)5–10(–13) mm. <b>Flowers</b> 10–70, resupinate, green or yellowish green; dorsal sepal oblong-elliptic, 1.4–2 × 0.6–1 mm, apex acuminate; lateral sepals oblong-elliptic, 1.4–2 × 0.6–1 mm, apex acuminate; petals linear, slightly falcate, 1–1.8 × 0.1–0.2 mm; lip rhombic-deltate to cordate-ovate or oblong-elliptic, 1.8–2.5 × 1.9–2.5 mm, base with auricles 0.6 or more times as long as distance from base of lip to apex of middle lobe, apex 3-dentate; column 0.5–0.7 × 0.5–0.7 mm; pollinia yellow. <b>Capsules</b> spreading to slightly drooping, subglobose to ovoid, 6 × 3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry, open woods, shale barrens and sandy pine barrens
|elevation=10–600 m
|distribution=N.S.;Conn.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|discussion=<p>Of conservation concern.</p>
|tables=
|references=
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malaxis bayardii
|author=
|authority=Fernald
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer.
|habitat=Dry, open woods, shale barrens and sandy pine barrens
|elevation=10–600 m
|distribution=N.S.;Conn.;Mass.;N.J.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Pa.;R.I.;S.C.;Vt.;Va.;W.Va.
|reference=None
|publication title=Rhodora;plate
|publication year=;1936
|special status=
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1289.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae
|genus=Malaxis
|species=Malaxis bayardii
}}<!--

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