Malaxis major (Rchb.f.) León ex A.D.Hawkes
First published in Phytologia 3: 260 (1950)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Puerto Rico, Guadeloupe, Dominica. It is a pseudobulbous geophyte and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.
Distribution
Native to:
Leeward Is., Puerto Rico, Windward Is.
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Microstylis major Rchb.f. in Flora 71: 153 (1888)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Malaxis rotundata (Ridl.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 673 (1891)
- Microstylis rotundata Ridl. in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 24: 332 (1888)
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Jørgensen, P.M., Nee, M.H. & Beck., S.G. (eds.) (2013). Catálogo de las plantas vasculares de Bolivia. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 127: 1-1741. Missouri Botanical Garden.
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0