Malaxis caricoides (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1970 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Carex Like Malaxis [refers to the narrow linear leaves]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1200 meters as a medium to just large sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to a thick, fleshy stem carrying 10 to 14, linear, narrowing apically, acute leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, strict to substrict, glabrous, angular, to 8" [20 cm] long, laxly many flowered inflorescence with deflexed, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers olive green with a darker central eye.

Synonyms Crepidium caricoides (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis caricoides Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Microstylis dryadum Drawing fide;

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