Plants 3–25 cm. Pseudobulbs 4–10 mm diam. Leaves 1–2(–3), subopposite, yellow-green, oblong-elliptic, base sheathing stem, apex acute; blade 2–10 × 0.5–4.1 cm. Inflorescences: floral bracts lanceolate, 1–4 mm; pedicels 2.5–4.5 mm. Flowers not resupinate, green, yellowish green, or yellow; dorsal sepal slightly reflexed, ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–2.8 × 0.9–1.4 mm, margins revolute, apex acuminate; lateral sepals slightly reflexed, lanceolate, 1.5–2.5 × 0.9–1.4 mm, apex acuminate; petals strongly reflexed, filiform to narrowly linear, 1.8–2.2 × 0.3–0.4 mm, apex rounded; lip ovate, concave, 3-lobed, middle lobe ovate, 1.5–2.5 × 1–2 mm, apex acuminate, lateral lobes basal, curved up on either side of middle lobe, narrow, short; column greenish yellow to yellow, 0.5–0.8 × 0.5–0.8 mm. 2n = 30 (Eurasia).

Phenology: Flowering summer.
Habitat: Moist or dry slopes or banks, shaded or open, bogs and conifer woods
Elevation: 0–400 m

Distribution

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B.C. (Queen Charlotte Islands), Alaska, Eurasia.

Discussion

Selected References

Beese, W. J. 1983. White malaxis, Malaxis monophyllos var. diphyllos, an addition to the orchids of Canada from the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia. Canad. Field-Naturalist 97: 215–216.

Lower Taxa

None.