Malaxis josephiana (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891Photo by © Anon and The Blue Nanta Website

Common Name Joseph's Malaxis [J.D. Hooker English Botanist 1800's]

Flower Size .4" to .72" [1 to 1.8 cm]

Found in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan and Nepal in tropical valleys at elevations of 500 to 1000 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a compressed, filiform, pseduobulbous stem enveloped by broad, acuminate, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 3 to 5, plicate, oblong-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, purple brown above, green beneath, wavy margined, slightly oblique, acute, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, racemose, laxly 6 to 12 flowered, glabrous, deeply ridged, 2 to 12" [5 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with lanceolate, reflexed floral bracts.

Synonyms Crepidium josephianum (Rchb.f.) Marg. 2002; *Microstylis josephiana Rchb.f. 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Microstylis josephiana drawing fide; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Microstylis josephiana; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Crepidium josephianum; Notes on Crepidium (Orchidaceae): Two new combinations, a putative natural hybrid, and four species newly recorded for Thailand ANCHALEE NUAMMEE, TOSAK SEELANAN, SOMRAN SUDDEE & HENRIK Æ. PEDERSEN Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 44(1): 35–44. 2016[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309262010_Notes_on_Crepidium_Orchidaceae_Two_new_combinations_a_putative_natural_hybrid_and_four_species_newly_recorded_for_Thailand/download] as Crepidium josephianum AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #3 1979 as Microstylis josephiana; A Century of New Orchid Records in Bhutan Royal Government of Bhutan 2017 as Crepidium josephianum drawing/photo fide

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