Malaxis godefroyi (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Malaxis Drawing © by Seidenfaden and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name Godefroy's Malaxis [French Trader and Orchid Collector 1800's]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Thailand and Cambodia at elevations around 200 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot growing terrestrial with an erect stem carrying linear-elliptic, acute basally cuneate into the elongate petiolate base leves that blooms on a termnal, erect, 3" [7.5 cm] long, successively several, many flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Crepidium godefroyi (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis godefroyi Rchb.f. 1878

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide;

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