Malaxis commelinifolia (Zoll. & Moritzi) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Commelinoides Photo by © Philip Wojtas and his Flicker Orchid Photo Site

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Common Name The Commelina Leaf-Like Malaxis

Flower Size .14" [3.5 mm wide]

Found in Western Java and Borneo on mossy forests floors, limestone cliffs in lower and hill forests at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with fleshy, creeping stems carrying 2 rowed, small, ovate, acute, violet centered with broad green margin leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, terminal, 7.2" [18cm] long, 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Crepidium commelinifolium (Zoll. & Moritzi) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis commelinifolia Zoll. & Moritzi 1844; Platyclinis commelinifolia (Zoll. & Moritzi) Benth. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Java Comber 1990 photo; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing

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