Microcoelia smithii (Rolfe) Summerh. 1943 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

Common Name Smith's Microcoelia

Flower Size .25" [6 mm]

Found in Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi in dry deciduous forests and thickets at elevations of sealevel to 600 meters as a miniature sized, hot growing epiphyte with silvery grey, roots radiating from a short central stem forming a mound that blooms in the spring on to 12, simultaneous, .8 to 2" [2 to 5 cm] long, 4 to 12 flowered inflorescnece.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Orchids of Kenya Stewart 1996; African Orchids in the wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006