Malaxis monophyllos

Vernacular names [edit wikidata 'White Adder's Mouth']

• English: White Adder's Mouth
• مصرى: افعى بيضاء الفم
• беларуская: Мякатніца адналістая
• čeština: měkčilka jednolistá
• Deutsch: Kleinblütiges Einblatt
• eesti: Ainulehine sookäpp
• suomi: sääskenvalkku
• hornjoserbsce: Kwěćikaty jednolist
• magyar: Egylevelű lágyvirág
• italiano: Mocrostile
• 日本語: ホザキイチヨウラン
• lietuvių: Vienalapis geduti
• latviešu: Purvāju vienlape
• norsk bokmål: Knottblomst
• Nederlands: Eenblad
• norsk nynorsk: Knottblom
• norsk: Knottblom
• polski: Wyblin jednolistny
• русский: Мякотница однолистная
• slovenčina: Trčníček jednolistý
• slovenščina: enolistna plevka
• svenska: Knottblomster
• українська: Глевчак однолистий
• 中文: 鹅肠草, 沼兰, 原沼兰
• 中文（中国大陆）: 沼兰
• 中文（简体）: 原沼兰, 沼兰
• 中文（臺灣）: 單葉軟葉蘭, 阿里山小柱蘭, 阿里山穗花一葉蘭

APG IV Classification: Domain: Eukaryota • (unranked): Archaeplastida • Regnum: Plantae • Cladus: Angiosperms • Cladus: monocots • Ordo: Asparagales • Familia: Orchidaceae • Subfamilia: Epidendroideae • Tribus: Malaxideae • Genus: Malaxis • Species: Malaxis monophyllos (L.) Sw. (1800)

Synonyms

Basionym Ophrys monophyllos L., Sp. Pl.: 947 (1753) Homotypic synonyms Epipactis monophylla (L.) F.W.Schmidt, Samml. Phys.-Ökon. Aufs. 1: 245 (1795) Microstylis monophyllos (L.) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 19 (1830) Achroanthes monophyllos (L.) Greene, Pittonia 2: 183 (1891) Heterotypic synonyms Malaxis diphyllos Cham., Linnaea 3: 34 (1828) Dienia gmelinii Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 23 (1830) Microstylis diphylla (Cham.) Lindl., Gen. Sp. Orchid. Pl.: 19 (1830) Achroanthes cilifolia Raf., New Fl. 1: 59 (1836) Microstylis japonica Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 203 (1866) Liparis japonica (Miq.) Maxim., Bull. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Pétersbourg, III, 31: 102 (1887) Leptorkis japonica (Miq.) Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 671 (1891) Liparis inconspicua Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 6: 48 (1892) Microstylis yunnanensis Schltr., Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 5: 109 (1912) Achroanthes monophyllos f. diphyllos (Cham.) Koidz. ex Masam., Icon. Pl. Koisikav. 3: 27 (1916) Microstylis arisanensis Hayata, Icon. Pl. Formosan. 6: 68 (1916) Malaxis monophyllos f. triphyllos Soó in G.Keller & al., Monogr. Iconogr. Orchid. Eur. 2: 376 (1938) Malaxis muscifera var. stelostachya Tang & F.T.Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 73 (1951) Malaxis yunnanensis (Schltr.) Tang & F.T.Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 75 (1951) Malaxis yunnanensis var. nematophylla Tang & F.T.Wang, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 1: 76 (1951) Malaxis monophyllos f. diphyllos (Cham.) Soó, Ann. Univ. Sci. Budapest. Rolando Eötvös, Sect. Biol. 11: 73 (1969) Malaxis arisanensis (Hayata) S.Y.Hu, Quart. J. Taiwan Mus. 27: 432 (1974) Malaxis monophyllos var. diphyllos (Cham.) Luer, Native Orchids U.S. & Canada excluding Florida: 306 (1975) Malaxis taiwaniana S.S.Ying, Quart. J. Chin. Forest. 8: 143 (1975) Microstylis muscifera var. stelostachya (Tang & F.T.Wang) Marg., Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 109: 183 (2007 publ. 2008) Microstylis yunnanensis var. nematophylla (Tang & F.T.Wang) Marg., Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien, B 109: 186 (2007 publ. 2008)

Species

Images of the whole plant

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Inflorescences

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Flowers

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Leaves

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Botanical illustrations

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  Malaxis monophyllos
  (as syn.
  Microstylis monophyllos)
  plate 151 B in:
  Otto Wilhelm Thomé:
  Flora von Deutschland, Österreich u.d. Schweiz
  (Orchidaceae),
  Gera (1885)
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  Malaxis monophyllos
  plate 28 in:
  Henry Correvon:
  Album des orchidées de l'Europe centrale et septentrionale
  Genève (1899)
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  Malaxis monophyllos
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  Microstylis monophyllos)
  Tafel 4 in:
  Walter Müller:
  Abbildungen der in Deutschland und den angrenzenden Gebieten vorkommenden Grundformen der Orchideenarten
  Berlin (1904)

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  Malaxis monophyllos
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  Achroanthes monophylla)
  plate 417 in:
  C.A.M Lindman:
  Bilder ur Nordens Flora
  (Orchidaceae)
  (1917-1927)

Varietates

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  Malaxis monophyllos
  var. brachypoda

Malaxis monophyllos var. obtusa Tsukaya & H.Okada, J. Jap. Bot. 75: 314 (2000)

Native distribution areas

Reference: Brummitt, R.K. (2001) TDGW - World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition Europe Eastern Europe Baltic States, Belarus, Central European Russia, East European Russia, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, South European Russia, Ukraine. Middle Europe AustrIia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Switzerland. Northern Europe Finland, Norway, Sweden. Southeastern Europe Italy, Romania, Yugoslavia. Southwestern Europe France. Asia-Temperate China China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongoliae, Manchuria, Qinghai, Tibet. Eastern Asia Japan, Korea, Taiwan. Mongolia Mongolia, Russian Far East Amur, Kamchatka, Khabarovsk, Kuril Islands, Primorye, Sakhalin. Siberia Altay, Buryatiya, Chita, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Tuva, West Siberia. Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent Nepal. Malesia Philippines. Northern America Subarctic America Alaska, Aleutian Islands, Northwest Territories, Yukon. Western Canada Alberta. British Columbia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan. Eastern Canada Labrador, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Ontaria, Prince Edward Isle, Québec. North-Central U.S.A. Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin. Northeastern U.S.A. Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Masachusettes, Michigan, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Vermont. Northwestern U.S.A. Colorado. Southwestern U.S.A. California.

Selected Weblinks

Wikispecies has an entry on: Malaxis monophyllos.