| Malaxis metallica | photo C.Solimbergo | |
| (Crepidium metallicum) | ||
| taxonomy | described by | (Reichenbach f.) Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto |
| published in | Revisio Generum Plantarum 2 : 673 5 november 1891 | |
| family | Orchidaceae | |
| subfamily | Epidendroideae | |
| tribe | Malaxideae | |
| subtribe | Malaxidinae | |
| genus | Malaxis Swartz 1788 | |
| metabolism | CAM pathway, stomata of the leaves are open at night. | |
| (K.Silvera, L.S. Santiago, J.C. Cushman, K. Winter - International Symposium on Plant Biology, August 2013) | ||
| it is useful give the soluble mineal nutriens, on the roots. | ||
| native of | origins | forests with moss, or large rocks in the river beds, in Malaysia (Borneo, Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah), The Philippines |
| altitude | 158 - 1200 m (521 - 3960 ft) | |
| habitat |
climate informations from Kota Kinabalu (Sabah, Malaysia) |
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Köppen climate classification : Af, humid tropical climate of the rainforest |
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(without a winter season, more and abundant rainfall) |
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the weather station data (temperatures are calculated for an altitude of 600 m / 1980 ft) : |
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| photoperiod | in Kota Kinabalu this orchid blooms with a photoperiod, which varies during the year, from 12 h 22 m' to 11 h 38 m' | |
| life form | geophyte | |
| brightness | low | |
| inflorescence | length | 16 cm (6.4"), apical |
| nr flowers | 32 - 36 | |
| size | single flower 1 L 0.7 cm (0.4" L 0.28") - inflorescence 12 L 4 cm (4.8" L 1.6") | |
| duration | inflorescence ≈ 30 days | |
| time | to bloom from birth, ≈ 60 days | |
| CITES | appendix | II |
