Aeranthes robusta Senghas 1987
Another Drawing Photo/drawings by © Karl Senghas
Common Name The Robust Aeranthes
Flower Size 1.4" [3.5 cm]
Found in east central Madagascar in montane forests at elevations of 1300 to 1600 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a pedent stem enveloped completely by leaf sheaths carrying 2 ranked, close set, linear, flat, fleshy, conduplicate, apically blunt, equally bilobed leaves that blooms in the winter on an axillary, flexuous, pendent, peduncle to 20" [50 cm] long, with a few, widely separated bracts, successively single, to 10 flowered inflorescence carrying not widely opening, yellow green flowers.
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References
W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006;
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