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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Malaxis wendtii
|accepted_authority=Salazar
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Orquidea (Mexico City)
|place=13: 281, fig. 1. 1993
|year=1993
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae;Malaxis;Malaxis wendtii
|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 wendtii]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 627, 632
|treatment_page=page 631
}}<!--

--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>16–45 cm. <b>Pseudobulbs</b> 5–10 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> 1, within proximal 1/3 of stem; blade orbiculate-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, (3–)4.1–8.5(–10) × 0.2–0.45(–0.65) cm, apex obtuse to acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, 6–25 cm; rachis slightly angled; floral bracts triangular to lanceolate, 1–2 × 0.5 mm, apex acute; pedicels not crowded, 2.5–5 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 16–133, resupinate, deep maroon or greenish maroon; sepals papillose, not glabrous; dorsal sepal lanceolate, 1.8–2.4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, margins revolute, apex acute; lateral sepals lanceolate-elliptic, falcate, 1.8–2.4 × 0.8–1.2 mm, apex acute; petals strongly recurved, linear to filiform, slightly falcate, 1.8–2.2 × 0.2–0.4 mm, apex obtuse; lip linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.8–2.3 × 1.3–1.8 mm, base with auricles broad and diverging, apex narrowly acuminate; column 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.8 mm; pollinia yellow. <b>Capsules</b> ascending, ellipsoid, 5 × 3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering summer (Jul–Sep).
|habitat=Open coniferous and mixed forests on dry slopes
|elevation=2000 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico.
|discussion=<p>The confusion among <i>Malaxis porphyrea</i>, M. ehrenbergii, and <i>M. wendtii</i> is discussed under 10. <i>M. porphyrea</i>.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Malaxis wendtii
|authority=Salazar
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering summer (Jul–Sep).
|habitat=Open coniferous and mixed forests on dry slopes
|elevation=2000 m
|distribution=Tex.;Mexico.
|reference=None
|publication title=Orquidea (Mexico City)
|publication year=1993
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1292.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae
|genus=Malaxis
|species=Malaxis wendtii
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