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Common Name The ? Aeranthes

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Found in south central Madagascar and Reunion in humid, evergreen, montane forests at elevations of 400 to 1500 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 3 to 8, linear, v-shaped in cross-section leaves that blooms in the late spring, summer and winter on n erect to ascending, simple to 2 branched, rigid, to 8" [to 20 cm] long inflorescence enveloped by pale bracts.

Synonyms Aeranthes erectiflora Senghas 1987; Aeranthes longipes Schltr. 1925; Aeranthes rigidula Schltr. 1925

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A longipes; Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hllerman & Holst 1986 as A longipes drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 as A erectiflora Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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