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

Common Name The Torricelli Range Malaxis [Mountains in New Guinea]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 600 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with a very short rhizome giving rise to an erect, short, leafy in the lower 2/3's stem carrying 5 to 9, erect-patent to patent, obliquely ovate, acute to acuminate, usually rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a thin, erect, rachis to 2" [5 cm] long, subdense, 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with reflexed, lanceolate, acute shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the sepals and petals are a green-yellow color, the lip is orange-yellow and the column is olive green wotha blue apex.

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

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

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