!Tylostigma madagascariense Schltr. 1916

Drawing by © Rudolf Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Common Name The Madagascan Tylostigma

Flower Size .08" [2 mm]

Found in central Madagascar in peaty and marshy soils within marshes at elevations of 1500 to 2400 meters as a miniature sized, cool to cold growing terrestrial with an erect stem enveloped basally by 3 to 4 sheaths and carrying a single linear-lanceolate, acute leaf at mid stem that blooms in the early summer on an erect, terminal, to 3.6" [9 cm] long, several to many flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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