Malaxis calophylla (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891

Flower Closeup Photos and plant courtesy of Danny Lentz ©

Plant Photo courtesy of Andy's Orchids Copyright © 2002 All rights reserved.

Plant in Situ in Thailand Photo courtesy of David Kuehn

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Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Leaf Malaxis

Flower Size 1/4" [.6 cm]

Found in Assam India, eastern Himalayas, Sikkim, Bangladesh, Myanamar, Northern Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and Borneo in hill forests at elevations around 1100 meters as a small sized, cool to warm growing terrestrial with stout, short, erect pseudobulbs carrying 3 to 4, shortly petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acute, bicolor leaves and blooms on a 10" [25 cm] long, many flowered, densely cylyndrical inflorescence with narrow, linear-setaceous bracts and successively opening, inverted [non-resupinate] flowers occuring in the spring and summer. These pictures are in situ in Northern Thailand and was blooming as of June 2001.

Synonyms Crepidium calophyllum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995; Epidendrum variegatum J.König 1791; Liparis elegantissima Ridl. 1888; Malaxis scottii (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891; *Microstylis calophylla Rchb. f. 1879; Microstylis scottii Hook. f. 1890; Microstylis wallichii var. brachycheila Hook.f. 1890

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Burma Grant 1895/95 as Microstylis scottii; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; The Wild Orchids of China Tsi, Chen & Mori 1997; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2007

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