Malaxis polyodon (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Crepidium Photo by A. Nuammee and The Notes on Crepidium (Orchidaceae): Two new combinations, a putative natural hybrid, and four species newly recorded for Thailand Website

TYPE Drawing Type Drawing From Icones 21 Hooker 1890.

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Common Name The Many Toothed Malaxis [refers to the serrate lip]

Flower Size 1/3" [7 mm]

Found in Laos, Myanmar and Thailand as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with 3 to 5, plicate, sessile, suberect, acute to acuminate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a terminal, erect, sublax, 10" [25 cm] long, many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Crepidium polyodon (Hook.f.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis polyodon Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Icones 21 Hooker 1890 as Microstylis polyodon drawing fide; The Orchids of Thailand Seidenfaden & Smithnand 1959 drawing fide; Dansk Botanisk Arkiv Bind 33 nr 1 Orchids of Thailand VII Oberonia & Malaxis Seidenfaden 1978 drawing fide; Notes on Crepidium (Orchidaceae): Two new combinations, a putative natural hybrid, and four species newly recorded for Thailand ANCHALEE NUAMMEE, TOSAK SEELANAN, SOMRAN SUDDEE & HENRIK Æ. PEDERSEN Thai Forest Bull., Bot. 44(1): 35–44. 2016[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/309262010_Notes_on_Crepidium_Orchidaceae_Two_new_combinations_a_putative_natural_hybrid_and_four_species_newly_recorded_for_Thailand/download]

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