Aeranthes caudata Rolfe 1901
Photo by Lourens Grobler
Photo by Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.
Photo by Dale Borders
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Tailed Aeranthes
Flower Size to 4" [to 10 cm]
Found in the Comoros and central and eastern Madagascar in humid montane evergreen foretss at elevations of 700 to 1600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, 6" [15 cm] long, woody stem carrying ligulate, somewhat undulate leaves that blooms in the summer and early fall on a thread-like, 3'4" [100 cm] long, successively single flowered inflorescence with a few [3 to 8], successively opening flowers.
Synonyms Aeranthes imerinensis Schltr. 1925
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as A imerensis drawing ok; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; AOS Bulletin Vol 47 No 8 1978 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 as A imerinensis photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 50 No 6 1981 as A imerinensis photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 as A imerinensis photo ok; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 as A imerinensis photo fide; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 photo fide; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; 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 imerensis drawing/photo fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 drawing good; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983 as Angraecum imerinense; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; AOS Bulletin vol 78 No 8 2009 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 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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