Agrostophyllum occidentale Schltr. 1915 Postage Stamp scan by © The Stu 1967 Stamps Website

Plant in situ Seychelles Photo by © Rogier van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website

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Common Name or Meaning The Western Agrostophyllum

Flower Size

Found in Seychelles and northern Madagascar at elevations of 300 to 800 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial under large trees forming dense clumos with flattened stems carrying rigid sheaths with several, linear-lanceolate, obtusely bidentate apicaaly leaves that blooms in the late spring and summer on a terminal, sessile, spherical head .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] wide, of many, clustered 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Agrostophyllum seychellarum Rolfe 1922

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Crib & Bosser 2007

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