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Malaxis wariana is an orchid species identified by (Schltr.) P.F.Hunt in 1970. Culture information and photos for this orchid are commonly detailed under the currently accepted name of Crepidium warianum.
ORIGIN: Found in New Guinea at elevations around 450 to 1000 meters.
DESCRIPTION: Small sized, warm growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to an erect, short, somewhat thickened, terete, glabrous stem carrying about 4 to 6, erect-patent to erect, lanceolate-elliptic, acute, glabrous, cuneate below into the narrow petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on a thin, erect, strict to substrict, angled, to 5.2 [13 cm] long, laxly 8 to 20 flowered inflorescence with deflexed, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, half as long as the ovary floral bracts.
-- information provided by Jay Pfahl, author of the
Internet Orchid Species Encyclopedia (IOSPE).
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