Aeranthes peyrotii Bosser 1971

Photo courtesy of © Marni Turkel and her Stony Point Website

Side View Of Flower Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

EARLIER

Common Name Peyrot's Aeranthes [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in eastern Madagascar at elevations around 700 to 1230 meters in humid places in lowland evergreen forests as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short to no stem carrying, 6 to 8, 2 ranked, narrowly linear, slightly fleshy, glaucous green, compressed towards the stem to make a pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the summer and earlier fall on 2 to 3, pendant, rigid, swollen at the nodes, 10 to 16" [25 to 40 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by imbricating sheaths.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; 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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