Malleola punctata J.J.Wood & Lamb 2011 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website

Inflorescence Photo by © John Varigos and his Flickr Orchid Photo Website

Common Name The Spotted Malleola [refers to the leaves]

Flower Size .14" [3.5mm]

Found in Sabah Borneo in lowlands hill forests at elevations of 250 to 600 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm, pendulous growing epiphyte with a few to several, oblong, shallowly obtusely unequally bilobed apically, with a small mucro in between , leaves blooms in the fall on a lateral, pendent, slender, mauve-purple, simple, racemose, 4 to 5.6" [10 to 14 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescecnce with 3 triangular-ovate, acute bracts and triangular-ovate, acute floral bracts.

Caution I have no way of verifying if this determination is correct so please use with caution.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 drawing ok for plant/photo not!; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 2 O'Byrne 2011 photo fide

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