Microcoelia stolzii (Schltr.) Summerh. 1943 Photo courtesy of © Lourens Grobler

Plant in situ in Zimbabwe Photo by Bart Wursten ©, and his Flora Of Zimbabwe WebSite

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Common Name Stolz's Liparis [German Plant Collector and Missionary in Africa later 1800's]

Flower Size .22" [6 mm]

Found in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe in evergreen foresets and high rainfall woodlands at elevations of 800 to 2450 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with sliver-green roots that blooms in the late spring on several, to 5" [to 12.5 cm] long, densely many flowered inflorescence carrying fruity fragrant, crystaline flowers

Synonyms *Gussonea stolzii Schltr. 1915; Microcoelia ericosma Summerh. 1945

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