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

Common Name The Broad Lip Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 200 meters as a small sized, hot growing terrestrial with an elongate rhizome giving rise to an elongate, apically ascending, terete, glabrous, leafy stem carrying patent to erect-patent, obliquely lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acute to acuminate, slightly undulate margins, glabrous, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a strict to substrict, angled, glabrous, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence with deflexed, narrowly lanceolate, acute to acuminate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are carmine red.

Synonyms Crepidium latilabre (Schltr.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996; Fingardia latilabris (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis latilabris Schltr. 1911

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

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