Malaxis chlorophrys (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

Plant and Flowers in situ Borneo

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Full ShadeFall

Common Name The Green Eyebrow Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in Borneo as a small sized terrestrial with an erect stem carrying several ascending, ovate, crisped margins, acute, brown white central lined, gradually narrowing below in to the red brown, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a terminal, erect, many flowered inflorescence

CAUTION I have no way of verifying this determination so please use with caution.

Synonyms Crepidium chlorophrys (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis chlorophrys Rchb.f. 1881

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Microsdtylis chlorophyrs; A checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001;

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