Malaxis micrantha (Hook.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Crepidium

Plant and Flower in situ Malaysia Photos by David Kuehn ©

Common Name or Meaning The Small Flowered Malaxis

Flower Size .1" [3 mm]

Found in Malayisa Borneo and Sumatra at elevations of 700 to 1300 meters as a small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a slender, erect, reddish stem carrying all along the stem to 12, thin, sometimes tinged brown to purple, elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse, marginally undulate leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal , erect, slender, sometimes purple, many flowered inflorescence with greenish yellow flowers that flush with purple with age.

Synonyms Crepidium micranthum (Hook.f.) Szlach. 1995; Crepidium trinervium (Ridl.) Szlach. 1995; Microstylis flavoviridis Ridl. 1912; *Microstylis micrantha Hook.f. 1889; Microstylis trinervia Ridl.1926;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; The Orchids of Penninsular Malaysia and Singapore Seidenfaden & Wood 1992 drawing fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994; Orchids of Sumatra Comber 2001

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