Malaxis taurina (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891

Plant and FlowersPhotos by Takato NATSU from Japan and his Japan Orchids Page

Common Name The Horned Malaxis

Flower Size

Found in Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa and Vanuatu in montane forests at elevations of 300 to 800 meters as a miniature to medium sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial or lithophyte with short, erect, fleshy stems carrying 3 to 4, ovate-elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, acute, narrowing below into the slender petiolate base leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, 3 to 6" [7.5 to 15 cm] long, subdensely many flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Crepidium glabrum (Kraenzl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996; Crepidium polyphyllum (Ridl.) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones 1996; Crepidium taurinum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995; Goodyera glabra Kraenzl.1929; Malaxis polyphylla (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Microstylis polyphylla Ridl. 1888; Microstylis procera Kraenzl. 1929; *Microstylis taurina Rchb.f. 1876 '

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Vanuatu Lewis & Cribb 1989; Native Orchids of New Caledonia Societe Neo-Caledonnienne d'Orchidophilie 1995; Orchids of Samoa Cribb & Whistler 1996

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