THE NOMENCLATORIAL STATUS OF 
MALAXIS EXCAVATA 
BY 
Louis O. WiILLiaMs 
Malaxis excavata ( Lindl.) O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. 
Pl. 2 (1891) 673. 
Microstylis excavata Lindley in Bot. Reg. 24 (1888) 
Mise. p. 51. 
Microstyls hastilabia Reichenbach filius Beitr. Orch. 
Centr.-Am. (1866) 101. 
Cheiropterocephalus sertulifera Rodriguez Gen. et Sp. 
Orch. Nov. 1 (1877) 29. 
Malavis hastilabia (Reichb.f.) O. Kuntze Rev. Gen. 
Pl. 2 (1891) 673. 
Microstylis quadrangularis Cogniaux in Martius FI. 
Bras. 8, pt. 6 (1906) 551, t. 114. 
Microstylis Carpinterae Schlechter in Beihefte Bot. 
Centralbl. 36 (1918) Abt. 2, p. 381. 
Microstylis paranaensis Schlechter in Fedde Repert. 
16 (1920) 8830—Schlechter & Mansfeld in Fedde Re- 
pert. Beihefte 58 (1980) t. 18, f. 69. 
Malaxts Carpinterae (Schitr.) Ames Orch. 7 (Apr., 
1922) 157. 
Microstylis Ottonis Schlechter in Fedde Repert. Bei- 
hefte 10 (May, 1922) 839—Schlechter & Mansfeld in 
Fedde Repert. Beihefte 57 (1929) t. 136, f. 582. 
Microstylis sertulifera (Rodr.) Schlechter in Fedde 
Repert. Beihefte 35 (1925) 46—Hoehne & Schlechter 
in Arch. Bot. Estad. S. Paulo 1 (1926) 197, t. 7, f. I. 
Malaxis uncinata Ames & Schweinfurth in Sched. 
Orch. 10 (1980) 15. 
I am indebted to Sir Arthur W. Hill, Director of 
the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, for the loan of a flower 
from Lindley’s type specimen of Microstylis excavata 
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