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Orchid Species: Microstylis umbellulata

Kew currently accepted name is Malaxis umbelliflora

Microstylis umbellulata is an orchid species identified by (Sw.) Lindl. in 1830. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Malaxis umbelliflora.
Genus
Microstylis (Mst.)
Grex
umbellulata
Parents
Species
Author
(Sw.) Lindl.
Year
1830
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ORIGIN: Found in in Cuba, Jamaica, the Leeward Islands, the Windward Islands, Trinidad & Tobago, Guyana and Venezuela at elevations of 400 to 1300.

DESCRIPTION: Medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, fleshy, basally somewhat thickened inot a pseudobulb stem enveloped by 2 to 3, imbricating, herbaceous sheaths and carrying 2, auriculate, opposite to subopposite, rather broadly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, acute, basally contracted into a short, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall through early winter on an elongate, angular, glabrous, to 10 [to 25 cm] long, congested, subumbellate, densely many flowered inflorescence.

FLOWER SIZE: Small -- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
Other Names
Genus Name Genus Grex Name Year Author
Add+ Malaxis Mal umbelliflora 1788 Sw.
Add+ Achroanthes Achroanthes umbellulata 1891 (Sw.) Greene
Add+ Malaxis Mal umbellulata 1806 Sw.
Add+ Microstylis Mst umbelliflora 1893 (Sw.) Hitchc.
Most awarded/recent cultivars: Mal. umbelliflora 'MAJ' (1988)
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