Malaxis maclaudii (Finet) Summerh. 1934 Specimen by © C W Hirschberg and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

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Common Name Maclaud's Malaxis

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Found in Siera Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Sudan, Zaire and Zambia in swamp forests at elevations around 1300 meters as a miniature to just small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a creeping rhizome giving rise to a elongate, pseudobulbous stem carrying usually 3, around the middle of the stem, suberect to spreading, ovate, thin-textured, narrowing below into the petillate base leaves that blooms in the later summer on an erect, terminal, dense umbellate, to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying fragrant flowers

Synonyms Kornasia maclaudii (Finet) Szlach. 1995; Malaxis hirschbergii Summerh. 1951; *Microstylis maclaudii Finet 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 as M hirschbergii drawing ok; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 1 Pope 1995

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