Malaxis Sol. ex Sw.

Native to:

Alabama, Alaska, Alberta, Aleutian Is., Altay, Amur, Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Arizona, Arkansas, Austria, Bahamas, Baltic States, Belarus, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, British Columbia, Burundi, Buryatiya, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Central European Russia, Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colombia, Colorado, Comoros, Connecticut, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, District of Columbia, Dominican Republic, East European Russia, East Himalaya, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, French Guiana, Gabon, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinea, Gulf of Guinea Is., Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Illinois, India, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Irkutsk, Italy, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kuril Is., Labrador, Leeward Is., Liberia, Louisiana, Madagascar, Maine, Malawi, Maluku, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Carolina, North European Russia, Northwest European Russia, Northwest Territories, Norway, Nova Scotia, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Pennsylvania, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Puerto Rico, Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Rwanda, Sakhalin, Saskatchewan, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Carolina, South European Russia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Sulawesi, Suriname, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Togo, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vermont, Vietnam, Virginia, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Yakutskiya, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Extinct in:

California, Hungary

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
• Pridgeon, A.M., Cribb, P.J., Chase, M.C. & Rasmussen, F.N. (2006). Epidendroideae (Part One). Genera Orchidacearum 4: 1-672. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
• Wu, Z. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2009). Flora of China 25: 1-570. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

• Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 119 (1788)

Flora Zambesiaca

• Bentham, Gen. Pl. 3: 493 (1883).
• Prodr.: 119 (1788);

Flora of Tropical East Africa

• Benth. in G.P. 3: 493 (1883)
• Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. [Nova genera et species plantarum seu prodromus]: 119 (1788)
• in Veg. Acad. Nya Handl. Stockholm 21: 233 (1800)