Mystacidium aliceae Bolus 1911

Inflorescence Photos by © Lourens Grobler

Plant and Flowers Photo by © Cameron McMaster

Full Shade CoolSpring THROUGHSummer

Common Name Alice's Mystacidium [South African Orchid Enthusiast late 1800's]

Flower Size .4" [1 cm]

Found in southeastern Cape Province and Natal South Africa in coastal forests on twigs and branches at elevations around 500 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying 2 to 5, linear-lanceolate, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring and summer on a spreading to pendant, usually several, .6" [1.5 cm] long, densely 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Wild Orchids of Southern Africa Stewart, Linder, Schelpe & Hall 1982 photo fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1986; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation LaCroix 1997; Orchids of Southern Africa Linder & Kurzweil 1999 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

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