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Malaxis maculata is an orchid species identified by (Ridl.) Ames in 1921. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Crepidium maculatum.
ORIGIN: Found in Sabah and Sarawak Borneo in hill and upper montane forest at elevations of 1000 to 2100 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Miniature to small sized, warm to cold growing terrestrial with branching, superposed, fleshy, cylindrical, green often stained purple stems carrying broadly elliptic, acute, margins distinctly undulate-crisped, bright green covered in irregular dark purple blotches, abruptly narrowing below into the fleshy, purple, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the spring on a terminal, erect, purple, 4.4 [11 cm] long, laxly to 15 flowered inflorescence with sevaral non-resupinate flowers open at any one time.
FLOWER SIZE: 0.16 inches [4 mm]
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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