Oeonia madagascariensis (Schltr.) Bosser 1984 Drawing by © Brieger & Senghas

Common Name The Madagascar Oenia

Flower Size

Found in northern Madagascar as an epiphyte at elevations around 2000 meters as a small sized, cold growing epiphyte with an erect, flexuous stem enveloped by leaf sheaths carrying lanceolate, obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the summer on a lateral, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Perrieriella madagascariensis Schltr. 1925

References

W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985;

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