Aspidogyne malmei (Kraenzl.) Garay 1977

Drawing by © Kraenzlin and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Malme's Aspidogyne [Swedish Botanist late 1800's early 1900's]

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Brazil and Argentina as a cool growiung terrestrial with more or less 9, oblong-lanceolate, acute to acuminate petiolate base leaves that blooms on a short, somewhat shorter than the last leaf, farinose-pilose, to 15 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Erythrodes malmei (Kraenzl.) Pabst 1957; *Physurus malmei Kraenzl. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 35 Schlechter1925 as Physurus malmei; Flora Brasilica Fasc 8 Vol XIL II 13-43 1945 as Physurus malmei drawing fide; Lankesteriana 19(3) 2019 as Physurus malmei drawing fide;

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