Goodyera flaccida Schltr. 1924 TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Drawing Drawing by © Perrier and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

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Common Name The Loose Goodyera

Flower Size

Found in northeast and central eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations around 200 to 1000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte or terrestrial with 5 to 7, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, cuneate-rounded below into the petiolate base leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an erect, terminal, basally glabrous becoming glandular-pubescent above, with 3 to 4 distant, lanceolate, acuminate bracts, 9.2 to 12" [23 to 30 cm] long overall, rachis 5.2 to 7.2" [13 to 18 cm] long, laxly 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with erect-patent, elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovary floral bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; ; *Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 124 Schlechter 1924; Flora of Madagascar Vol 1 Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2009; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Hermans and Cribb 2009;

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