Malaxis oreocharis (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt 1970 Type Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Mountain Loving Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in New Guinea at elevations around 1100 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to a short stem carrying 3 to 5, glossy, dark violet, erect-patent to suberect, lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, cuneate below into the narrow, subpetiolate to petiolate base leaves that blooms in the winter on a strict to substrict, thin, naked, angular, glabrous, to 4" [10 cm] long, laxly 7 to 20 flowered inflorescence with deflexed, lanceolate, acute, shorter than the ovary floral bract.

Schlechter states that the flowers are yellowish with a few pale reddish spots.

Synonyms Crepidium oreocharis (Schltr.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis oreocharis Schltr. 1911

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchidaceae of German New Guinea Schlechter 1911 as Microstylis oreocharis Drawing fide; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #13 753 - 819 Liparinae 1983 drawing fide;

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