Malaxis metallica (Rchb.f.) Kuntze 1891 SECTION Crepidium
Photos courtesy of André Schuiteman, Dr. E.F. de Vogel and Jaap Vermeulen and Their Netherlands National Herbarium Website
Common Name or Meaning The Metallic Malaxis
Flower Size
Found in Borneo in hill and moss forests on rocks and boulders in river beds or in humus in dense forests at elevations of 400 to 1200 meters as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with 4 to 5, elliptic, metallic-purple, erose margined, acute leaves that blooms in the spring on an erect, terminal, laxly, many flowered inflorescence
Synonyms Crepidium metallicum (Rchb.f.) Szlach. 1995; *Microstylis metallica Rchb.f. 1879
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen Schlechter 1915 as Microstylis metallica; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Die Orchideen Band 3 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas Liferung #13 753 - 819 Liparinae 1983; The Plants of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Orchids Beaman, Wood, Beaman & Beaman 1993 photo fide; A Checklist of the Orchids of Borneo Wood & Cribb 1994 drawing/photo fide; Orchids of Sarawak Beaman, Wood & Beaman etal 2001; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 as M lowii photo fide; A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species Vol 1 O'Byrne 2001 photo fide; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 2 2008 as Crepidium metalicum photo good; Orchids of Peru Zelenko & Bermudez 2009 as M sp photo ok; Malesian Orchid Journal Vol 8 2011 as Crepidium metallicum; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 1 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011 photos fide; The Orchids of Mount Kinabalu Vol 2 Wood, Beaman, Lamb, Chu Lun and Beaman 2011
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