Malaxis physuroides (Schltr.) Summerh. 1953 publ. 1954 TYPE Drawing of Microstylis physuroides by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Physurus Like Malaxis

Flower Size .16 to .18" [4 to 4.5 mm]

Found in northern and northeastern Mdagaascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 400 to 700 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or epiphyte with nearly recumbent, most recent upright, cauliform pseudobulbs enveloped by 3 to 4 yellowish sheaths and carrying 3 to 4, ovate, acute, rounded to subcordate below into the contracted, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and fall on an erect, terminal, longer than the leaves, to 4" [10 cm] long, densely more than 50 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acute longer than the pedicel floral bracts..

Synonyms Lisowskia physuroides (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis physuroides Schltr. 1913

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Microstylis physuroides drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb and Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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