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

Full shade Cool EARLY Summer

Common Name The Smooth Malaxis [refers to the lip]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1100 to 1200 meters as a small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to a short, erect stem carrying 4 to 5, erect-patent, obliquely ovate-lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, acute, basally rounded and obliquely cuneate into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the early summer on an erect, thin, glabrous, to 2.8" [7 cm] long, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, sublaxly 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

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

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

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