Malaxis versicolor (Lindl.) Abeyw. 1959
Photo by © F. Suranjan and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Photo by © Indianature and the Travel Pod Website
Drawing Photo by © M.D.Dassanayake & F.R.Fosberg and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
Common Name or Meaning The Colorful Malaxis
Flower Size .16" [4 mm]
Found in Assam, India and Sri Lanka in submontane and tropical wet evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 1600 meters as a small sized, as a warm to cool growing terrestrial orchid with an erect stem carrying 3 to 5, purplish green, ovate-lanceolate, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer on a terminal, erect, peduncle angled, green to purplish, 2.8 to 6" [7 to 15 cm] longoverall, rachis 1.6 to 4" 4 to 10 cm] long, rather dense, many flowered inflorescence with lanceolate, acuminate floral bracts and carrying yellow tinted purple flowers
Synonyms Corymborkis versicolor (Lindl.) M.R.Almeida 2009; Liparis priochilus Lodd. 1831; Malaxis rheedei B.Heyne ex Wall. 1829; *Microstylis versicolor Lind. 1830; Seidenfia versicolor (Lindl.) Marg. & Szlach. 2001; Seidenfia versicolor (Lindl.) M.R.Almeida 2004
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 #3 1979 as Microstylis versicolor drawing fide; Indian Orchids, Guide to Identification and Culture vol 2 Pradhan 1979 drawing fide; A Revised Handbook to the Flora of Ceylon Dassanayake & Fosberg 1981 drawing fide; Orchids of Nilgiris Joseph 1987 as M rheedii Sw in error [Heyne ex Wall] drawing fide; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 drawing ok; Orchids of India A Glimpse Misra 2007 as Seidenfia versicolor; Orchids of Odisha Misra 2014 as Seidenfia versicolor drawing fide/photo plant only; Lankesteriana Vol 18 [1]: 23–62 Jalal & Jayanth 2018 photo fide; Orchids of Maharashtra Jalal 2018 Photo fide;
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