Malaxis balabacensis Ames 1911 SECTION Pseudoliparis Photo by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Balabac Malaxis [An Island of the Philippines just north of northernmost Borneo]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in the Phillipines, Sumatra and Malaysia at elevations around 300 to 700 meters as a mini-miniature sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with an closely spaced, somewhat leterally compressed pseudobulb, carrying about 4 to 5, obliquely ovate, rounded basally, the largest uppermost, petiolate below into the base leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, narrowly winged, peduncle 1.24 to 2.4" [3.1 to 6 cm] long, laxly, successively 2 to 3, to 20 flowered inflorescence with narrowly lanceolate, acute, reflexed floral bracts and carrying non-resupinate, orange flowers.

Synonyms Crepidium balabacense (Ames) Szlach. 1995; Crepidium inexspectatum (J.J.Sm.) Szlach. 1995; Malaxis inexpectata (J.J.Sm.) Comber 2001; *Microstylis inexspectata J.J.Sm. 1928; Pseudoliparis balabacensis (Ames) Marg. & Szlach. 2000; Pseudoliparis inexspectata (J.J.Sm.) Marg. 2003

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Sumatra J B Comber 2001 without basionym page non invalid as Malaxis inexpectata; Gard. Bull. Singapore 57: 263 - 267 Jutta & Faridah 2005 as M inexpectata drawing fide; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia O'Byrne, Ong, Yong and Saw 2011 as Malaxis inexpectata photo fide;

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