Malaxis khasiana (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891Photo by Sananetin O. and the Lana Bird Blog Spot

Common Name The Khasia Hills Malaxis [An area of northeastern India] - In China Xi Jing Zhao Lan

Flower Size .1" [2 mm]

Found in Assam, the eastern Himalayas, Nepal, Yunnan China and Thailand in forests in rock crevices at elevations of 1000 to 3000 meters as a small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with a short, leafy stem carrying 4 to 5, ovate-lanceolate, oblique, acute to acuminate, undulate wavy margins, strongly veined, greenish grey flushed with purple, narrowing below intothe petiollate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a deeply ridged, glabrous, ebracteate, 4.4 to 8.4" [11 to 21 cm] long, racemose, lax below, dense above, several flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acute, basally reflexed floral bracts

Synonyms Crepidium khasianum (Hook.f.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis khasiana Hook.f. 1888

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Sikkim-Himalaya Part 1 King & Pantling 1898 as Microstylis khasiana drawing fide; Orchids of Bhutan Pearce & Cribb 2002; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007; Native Orchids From Gaoligongshan Mountains, China Xiaohua, Xiaodong and Xiaochun 2009; Flora of China Vol 25 Zhengyi, Raven & Deyuan 2009 as Crepidium khasianum; The Wild Orchids in Yunnan Xu Xiang Ye & Liu 2010 as Crepidium khasianaum photos ok

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