Malaxis tixieri Seidenf. 1992 SECTION Crepidium Drawing by © Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Tixier's Malaxis

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Vietnam as a miniature to small sized terrestrial with an erect cauliform pseudobulb enveloped completely by imbicating leaf sheaths and carrying 4 or so, plicate, acute, elliptic, becoming conduplicate below into the basally clasping petiolate base leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, 5" [12.5 cm] long overall, successively many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Crepidium tixieri (Seidenf.) Szlach. 1995

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

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