Malaxis exilis J.B.Comber 2001 SECTION Commelinoides

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Part Shade Cool

Common Name The Slim Malaxis

Flower Size .12" [3 mm]

Found in Sumatra at elevations around 1220 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short stem carrying 2 to 4, thin, lanceolate, oliquely acuminate, acute, five nerved, plicate leaves that blooms on an erect, terminal, slender, peduncle to 3.6" [9 cm] long, rachis to 5.2" [13 cm] long, to 8.8" [22 cm] long overall, many flowered inflorescence with shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms Crepidium exilis (J.B.Comber) Marg. 2005 publ. 2006; Crepidium klossii Marg. 2002; Crepidium tenue Marg. 2012; Microstylis tenuis Ridl.1917

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001

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