Microcoelia ornithocephala P.J.Cribb 1985
Photos by © Isabel La Croix and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website
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Common Name The Bird's Head Microcoelia
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in southern Malawi in dry deciduous forests at elevations of 480 to 600 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short stem giving rise to green with white pneumophores, flattened with a slight ridge on top, tightly clinging roots that blooms in the late spring on 1 to 4, 1.2 to 2.8" [3 to 7 cm] long, zigzag, 5 to 17 flowered inflorescence with blackish bracts.
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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing fide/photo good; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae part 2 Pope 1998 drawing/photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 84 #10 2015 photo fide;
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