Microcoelia hirschbergii Summerh. 1943

Plant and Flowers Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Hirschberg's Microcoelia

Flower Size .3" [8 mm]

Found in Zaire and Zambia in riverine forestsand woodlands bordering swampy grounds at elevations of 750 to 1500 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte on twigs and branches often forming large colonies with masses of grey, sometimes flattened roots often forming a conical mass that blooms in the spring on to 8, simultaneous, 6 to 14" [15 to 35 cm] long, to 15 flowered inflorescnece.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006