Microcoelia perrieri (Finet) Summerh. 1943 Photos by © Lourens Grobler

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Common Name Perrier's Microcoelia [French Orchid Botanist in Madagascar]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in west and nortwest Madagascar in woodlands and bush from sealevel to 500 meters as a hot growing epiphyte or occasional lithophyte with a few to many simple to branched, flattened to rounded roots that blooms fall through spring on to 40, simultaneous, 3.6" [9 cm] long, to 26 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Angraecum perrieri (Finet) Schltr. 1913; Gussonea perrieri (Finet) Schltr. 1915; Rhaphidorhynchus perrieri Finet 1909

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids In the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006