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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MO022 : Malaxis versicolor (Lindl.) Abeyw.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Asparagales
Family : Orchidaceae - Orchid family
Genus : Malaxis
Species : Malaxis versicolor (Lindl.) Abeyw.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Orchid  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Orchidaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Colorful Malaxis
 
Synonym : Corymborkis versicolor (Lindl.) M.R.Almeida
Liparis priochilus G.Lodd.
Malaxis rheedei B.Heyne ex Wall., pro syn.
Microstylis versicolor Lindl.
Seidenfia versicolor (Lindl.) Marg. & Szlach.
Description : Colorful Malaxis is a terrestrial orchid with short stem, pseudobulb ovoid. Leaves are 2 rarely 3 stalkless or shortly stalkes, ovate to lanceshaped. Flowers are borne in densely flowered raceme atop leafless stem. Bracts are lanceshaped, deflexed. Flowers are small, yellow or purple, lip is short wedge-shaped or kidney-shaped, with comb-like teeth. It apppears similar to M. Rheedei, but always small, and pseudobulbous, with stalkless leaves and smaller flowers in denser spikes.
 
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Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :