Malaxis discolor (Lindl.) Kuntze 1891Drawing © by M.D.Dassanayake & F.R.Fosberg and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Black & White DrawingDrawings by © Fitch & Wright and The Plant Illustrations Website
Common Name The Different Colored Malaxis
Flower Size .08" [2 mm]
Found in Sri Lanka in tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations of sea level to 1900 meters as a mini-miniture sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with pseudobulbous, purplish red stems carrying oblong-ovate, deeply ribbed leaves.
Synonyms *Microstylis discolor Lindl. 1830; Seidenfia discolor (Lindl.) Szlach. 1995
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Microstylis discolor; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchid Culture in Ceylon and the East Price 2003
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