Aeranthes aemula Schltr. 1925
Photo by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Common Name or Meaning The Similar Aeranthes
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in central Madagascar in lichen & mossy forests at elevations of 450 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 4 to 6, linear to ligulate leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect to spreading, shortly branched, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence.
The 3 photos by Dominique do not match my references so please use with caution. I do not know at this time what they may represent. The 1st photo by Thibaud is a match for the references.
Synonyms Aeranthes biauriculata H.Perrier 1951
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A biauriculata; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007 photo fide to the 1st photo; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide to the 1st photo; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide to the first photo;
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