Microcoelia obovata Summerh. 1945 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

THROUGH

Common Name The Obovate Microcoelia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique and Natal South Africa at elevations of sea level to 1100 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with stiff straight roots and blooms in the spring and summer on an erect to pendant, to 10 seperate, to 4" [10 cm] long, to 20 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation LaCroix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------