Malaxis maculata (Ridl.) Ames 1921

Plant and Flowers in Situ Mt Kinabalu Borneo

Photo by © Rogier Van Vugt and His PBase Orchid Photo Website

Common Name Mieczyslaw's Crepidium [Polish Ochid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size .16" [4 mm]

Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in hill and upper montane forest at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with branching, superposed, fleshy, cylindrical, green often stained purple stems carrying broadly elliptic, acute, margins distinctly undulate-crisped, bright green covered in irregular dark purple blotches, abruptly narrowing below into the fleshy, purple, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, purple, 4.4" [11 cm] long, laxly to 15 flowered inflorescence with sevaral non-resupinate flowers open at any one time

Synonyms Crepidium mieczyslawii Marg. 2001; *Microstylis maculata Ridl. 1896

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 photo/drawing fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 9 2012

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