Side View of Flower

Inflorescence and Plant in situ on rocks Madgascar

Photo by © Labat and Mobot Madagascar Photo List

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Common Name The Shovel-Like Neobathiea [refers to the shape of the sepals]

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in northwestern Madgascar in deciduous forests on calcareous rocks at elevations of sea level to 350 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing lithophyte with a leafy stem carrying many, elliptic, leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on an axillary, 1 to 3.2" [2.5 to 8 cm] long, 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagfascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing fide; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 #12 2017; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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