Malaxis micrantha (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Commelinoides
Photos by © Peter O'Byrne and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Plant and Flower in situ Malaysia
Another Flower with a differnt lip apex
Photos by David Kuehn ©
Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Malaxis
Flower Size .1" [3 mm]
Found in Malayisa Borneo and Sumatra at elevations of 700 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a slender, erect, reddish stem carrying all along the stem to 12, thin, sometimes tinged brown to purple, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, marginally undulate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal , erect, slender, sometimes purple, many flowered inflorescence with greenish yellow flowers that flush with purple with age.
Synonyms Crepidium micranthum (Hook.f.) Szlach. 1995; Crepidium trinervium (Ridl.) Szlach. 1995; Microstylis flavoviridis Ridl. 1912; *Microstylis micrantha Hook.f. 1889; Microstylis trinervia Ridl.1926;
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Malaya Vol 1 Holttum 1957 drawing good; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; Orchids of Malaya Segerback 1992 photos fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; Wild Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia Ong, O'Byrne, Yong & Saw 2011 photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide
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