Malaxis bayardii | |
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Conservation status | |
Critically Endangered (IUCN 3.1) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Order: | Asparagales |
Family: | Orchidaceae |
Subfamily: | Epidendroideae |
Genus: | Malaxis |
Species: | M. bayardii |
Binomial name | |
Malaxis bayardii Fernald | |
Synonyms | |
Malaxis bayardii fo. kelloggiae P.M. Br. |
Malaxis bayardii, or Bayard's adder's-mouth orchid, is a species of orchid native to northeastern North America. It is found from Massachusetts to North Carolina, with isolated populations in Ohio and Nova Scotia. There are historical reports of the plant formerly growing in Vermont and New Jersey, but it seems to have been extirpated in those two states It grows in dry, open woods and pine barrens at elevations of less than 600 m (2000 feet).
Malaxis bayardii is a terrestrial herb up to 26 cm (10.4 inches) tall. It produces a pseudobulb up to 20 mm in diameter. It generally has only one leaf, occasionally two, about halfway up the stem. Flowers are small and green, borne in a raceme of up to 70 flowers.
Conservation status
It is listed as a special concern species and believed extirpated in Connecticut, as rare Massachusetts, and as endangered in New Jersey and in New York (state).
References
- Goedeke, T.; Sharma, J.; Treher, A.; Frances, A.; Poff, K. (2015). "Malaxis bayardii". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2015: e.T64176353A64176361. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T64176353A64176361.en. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
- ^ "Malaxis bayardii". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- NRCS. "Malaxis bayardii". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- "Malaxis bayardii". County-level distribution map from the North American Plant Atlas (NAPA). Biota of North America Program (BONAP). 2014.
- Catling, Paul M.; Magrath, Lawrence K. (2002). "Malaxis bayardii". In Flora of North America Editorial Committee (ed.). Flora of North America North of Mexico (FNA). Vol. 26. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press – via eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, MO & Harvard University Herbaria, Cambridge, MA.
- "Malaxis bayardii". North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOOC), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. 2018.
- Fernald, Merritt Lyndon (1936). "Rhodora". 38 (455): 402–404.
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(help) description in Latin, commentary in English; small line drawings showing flowers - Fernald, Merritt Lyndon (1936). "Rhodora". 38 (455). plate 446, photos of herbarium specimens, figures 1 and 2 at left.
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(help) - Fernald, Merritt Lyndon (1950). Gray's Manual of Botany (8th ed.). New York: American Book Company. pp. i–lxiv, 1–1632.
- Catling, P. M. (1991). "Systematics of Malaxis bayardii and M. unifolia". Lindleyana. Vol. 6. pp. 3–23.
- "Connecticut's Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern Species 2015" (PDF). State of Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Bureau of Natural Resources. Retrieved 28 January 2018. (Note: This list is newer than the one used by plants.usda.gov and is more up-to-date.)
- NRCS. "Malaxis bayardii". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 28 January 2018.
External links
- Among Rhode Island Wildflowers, Malaxis bayardii
- Go Botany, New England Wildflower Society
- New York Natural Heritage Program
- Go Orchids, North American Orchid Conservation Center (NAOOC), Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
- Digital Atlas of the Virginia Flora
- Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, Massachusetts Division of Fisheries & Wildlife
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