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

Common Name The Most Curved Malaxis [refers to the slightly pendent inflorescence]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1000 meters as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to an erect, short stem carrying 2 to 4, erect-patent to erect, obliquely elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute to subacuminate with a thin apicule, glabrous, narrowing below into the shortly petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a curved, thin, 1.2" [3 cm] long, laxly 5 to 9 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are orange yellow with a dark blue green column apex.

Synonyms Crepidium curvatulum (Schltr.) Szlach 1995; *Microstylis curvatula Schltr. 1911; Pseudoliparis curvatula (Schltr.) Szlach. & Marg. 1999

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

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