Malaxis mackinnonii (Duthie) Ames 1920 SECTION Malaxis
TYPE Drawing by Hormusji/Duthie ©
Drawing by © Seidenfaden
Drawings by © Deva and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name Mackinnon's Malaxis [English Original Collector of species 1800's] - in China Pu ye zhao lan
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in Bangladesh, India, western Himalayas, Chinease Himalayas, Nepal, Myanmar and Thailand at elevations of 600 to 1900 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a swollen subterranean stem carrying adpressed to the ground, 2 to 3, horizontal, unequal in size, upper side dark brownish green purplish beneath, 3 main nerved, broad, ovate, obtuse, cordate, amplexicaul basally, fleshy leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect, terminal, reddish purple, sharply quadrangular, rachis shorter than the peduncle, to 4 to 6" [10 to 15 cm] long, few to many flowered inflorescence with persistent, subulate, reflexed, longer than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small, sessile flowers.
Synonyms Crepidium mackinnonii (Duthie) Szlach. 1995; Microstylis cardonii Prain 1903; *Microstylis mackinnonii Duthie 1902; Seidenforchis mackinnonii (Duthie) Marg. 2006
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of the North Western Himalaya Part 2, Duthie 1906 as Microstylis mackinnoni drawing; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #3 1979 as Microstylis cardonii; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Crepidium mackinnonii; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 as Crepidium mackinnonii drawing fide; LANKESTERIANA 15(1): 7—50. Jeewan Singh Jalal & J. Jayanthi 2015 as Crepidium mackinnon
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