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Showing Malaxis plicata
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- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Lilianae(superordo)
- Asparagales(ordo)
- Orchidaceae(fam.)
- Malaxis(gen.)
- plicata(sp.)
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Type: "A native of Sumatra, from thence brought by Mr. Roxburgh to the Botanic garden in 1804..."
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APC Comment: Listed in synonymy of Malaxis latifolia Sm. by A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 1: 286 (1969), E.M.Ross in T.D.Stanley & E.M.Ross, Fl. South-eastern Queensland 3: 372 (1989), and A.W.Dockrill, Austral. Indig. Orchids 2nd edn, 1: 374 (1993). Malaxis latifolia is now considered to have been misapplied to Dienia montana (Blume) M.A.Clem. & D.L.Jones in Australia.