Malaxis cirrhiflora W.Kittr. 1985 SECTION Crepidium Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Curled Flower Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 350 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to an elongate, leafy in the lower half, terete, glabrous stem carrying erect-patent, linear, acute, , narrowing below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, thin, angular, few bracted, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence with deflexed, linear-lanceolate, acuminate to acute, equal to the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are pale brown-yellow and the column apex is a dark blue green.

Synonyms Crepidium stenophyllum ( Schltr. ) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis stenophylla Schltr. 1911; Microstylis stenophylla var. crispatula Schltr. 1911; Pseudoliparis stenophylla ( Schltr. ) Szlach. & Marg. 1999; Pseudoliparis stenophylla var. crispatula (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 1999

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

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