Inflorescence

Photos by © Morat and Mobot Madagascar Photo List

LATER

Common Name The Spectacular Grammangis

Flower Size 2.2" [5.5 cm]

Found in south western Madagascar in seasonally dry, deciduous forest or woodland at elevations of 300 to 800 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte on large trees with clustered, conical pseudobulbs carrying 2 to 5, loriform, plicate leaves that blooms in the later spring on a spreading, to 20" [50 cm] long, 15 to 20 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 24 1457 - 1520 Brieger 1991; Orchid Digest Vol 62 #3 1998 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 68 #9 1999; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo fide; 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 drawing/photo fide;

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