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|accepted_name=Malaxis soulei
|accepted_authority=L. O. Williams
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|place=21: 343. 1934
|year=1934
}}
|common_names=Mountain malaxis
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Microstylis montana
|authority=Rothrock
|rank=species
|publication_title=Rep. U.S. Geogr. Surv., Wheeler,
|publication_place=264. 1879
}} {{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Malaxis montana
|authority=(Rothrock) Kuntze
|rank=species
|publication_title=
|publication_place=1891
}}
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Achroanthes montana
|authority=(Rothrock) Greene
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Orchidaceae;Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae;Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae;Malaxis;Malaxis soulei
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Orchidaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Malaxis]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Malaxis soulei]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 26
|mention_page=page 627, 630
|treatment_page=page 629
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>11–60 cm. <b>Pseudobulbs</b> 5–15 mm diam. <b>Leaves</b> 1, at middle or proximal 1/3 of stem, sheathing leaf bases persistent, shredding; blade ovate-elliptic or oblanceolate, keeled abaxially, 2.4–15 × 1–5.2(–6) cm, apex acute. <b>Inflorescences</b> spicate racemes, rachis thick, slightly ridged or fluted, 6–22 cm; floral bracts triangular to lanceolate, 0.5–1 mm; pedicels 1.3–1.7 mm. <b>Flowers</b> 40–160, not resupinate, green to yellowish green; dorsal sepal ovate to elliptic, 1.5–2.8 × 0.8–1.3 mm, apex acuminate; lateral sepals ovate to elliptic, falcate, 1.5–2.8 × 0.8–1.3 mm, apex acuminate; petals strongly reflexed, filiform to linear, falcate, 1.3–2 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apex acuminate; lip suborbiculate-ovate to subquadrangular-ovate, 1.5–2.8 × 1.3–2.2(–2.5) mm, base hastate-auriculate, apex obliquely 3-dentate or retuse with apiculum in sinus; disc deeply concave, 5-veined; column 0.2–0.5 × 0.2–0.5 mm; pollinia yellow. <b>Capsules</b> ascending, ellipsoid, 7 × 3 mm.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Moist, wooded canyons and ravines, rocky open slopes, pine savannas
|elevation=2000–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|discussion=<p><i>Malaxis soulei</i> grows in the Santa Catalina, Santa Rita, and Chiricahua mountains in Arizona, and in the Davis Mountains in Texas.</p><!--
--><p>The flowers of <i>Malaxis soulei</i> are retained on the axis until the capsules are fully developed, unlike <i>M. corymbosa</i> and some other species where the flowers fall quickly if not fertilized. The apparently sessile flowers are a very distinctive characteristic of this species. The central apiculum of the lip may be obsolete, and the apex thus retuse.</p><!--
--><p>The name <i>Malaxis</i> macrostachya has been applied to <i>M. soulei</i> (C. A. Luer 1975). It is a nomen confusum, however, and it is not clearly applicable to this species (L. O. Williams 1965).</p>
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name=Malaxis soulei
|authority=L. O. Williams
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Achroanthes montana
|basionyms=Microstylis montana;Malaxis montana
|family=Orchidaceae
|phenology=Flowering Jul–Sep.
|habitat=Moist, wooded canyons and ravines, rocky open slopes, pine savannas
|elevation=2000–3000 m
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.;Mexico;Central America.
|reference=None
|publication title=Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard.
|publication year=1934
|special status=
|source xml=https://bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation/src/2e0870ddd59836b60bcf96646a41e87ea5a5943a/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V26/V26_1288.xml
|subfamily=Orchidaceae subfam. Epidendroideae
|tribe=Orchidaceae tribe Malaxideae
|genus=Malaxis
|species=Malaxis soulei
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