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

Common Name The Set Apart Malaxis [refers to the stems]

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an elongate, thin rhizome giving rise to an elongate, apically ascending, terete, glabrous, leafy stem carrying 3, patent to erect-patent, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, undulate margins, glabrous, rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a strict to substrict, slightly angled, glabrous, to 4.8" [12 cm] long, subdensely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence with deflexed, lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the the ovary floral bracts.

Schlechter states that the flowers are green.

Synonyms Crepidium distans (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis distans Schltr. 1911

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

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