!Lemurella culicifera (Rchb.f.) H.Perrier 1941

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name The Mosquito Carrying Lemurella

Flower Size .36" [.9 cm]

Found in the Comoros Islands and western Madagascar at sealevel to 800 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a thin, compressed, curved or pendant stem carrying 2 to 12, size and shape variable, obovate-oblong, oblong-lingulate or oblanceolate-cuniform leaves that are somewhat emarginate apically and blooms in the later spring on many, not longer or just slightly longer than the leaves [1 to 4"], thin, simple, very loose, 5 to 12 flowered inflorescence with scarious, thin, acute bracts that are a third of the length of the pedicel.

Synonyms Angraecum ambongense Schltr. 1913; *Angraecum culiciferum Rchb. f. 1804; Beclardia humbertii H.Perrier 1951; Lemurella ambongensis (Schltr.) Schltr. 1925; Oeonia culicifera (Rchb.f.) Finet 1907