Aeranthes longipes Schltr. 1925 Photo by Olaf Pronk and His Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar Website

Another Clone? Photo by Dale and Deni Borders

LATE EARLY

Common Name or Meaning The ? Aeranthes

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Occuring in south central Madagascar in evergrenn, mossy, montane forests at elevations around 1400 to 2000 meters as a miniature, warm to cool growing epiphyte with almost no stem with 5 to 9, strap-shaped to lorate-linear, , dark green, leathery, lorate-linear leaves that are very slightly bilobed and acute apically that blooms in the late summer and early fall on a very slender, pendant, to 14" [to 35 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with the somewhat transparent, glassine flowers that do not open well and are held in the last 1" in a cluster and is covered with brown bracts inbetween each node

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

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 as A longipes; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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