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Plant and Flowers Photo Ong Poh Teck and The Biological Diversity Clearing House Mechanism Website

Full Shade Cool springSummer

Common Name The Tree Loving Malaxis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Sulawesi in montane forests on vines, tree trunks and on moss pads at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte or terrestrial with rather large pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, apical, broad, green leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on an erect, terminal, dense, successively 12 to 20, many [200] flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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