Malaxis muscifera (Fly Bearing Malaxis)
Malaxias muscifera – Fly Bearing Malaxis (Click to enlarge)
| English Name | Fly Bearing Malaxis |
| Local name | Not recorded |
| Botanical name | Malaxismuscifera |
| Family | Orchidaceae |
| Distribution | Common in forests, shrubberies & grassy slopes of the valley of GHNP |
| Description | It is a tiny terrestrial yellowish- green orchid, very numerous in a very slender rather lax upright spike 8-25cm, and leaves broad stalkless, paired unequal, arising towards the base of the stem. Flowers yellowish-green. Found at an altitude of 2500-4000m. |
| Flowering | July – August |