Flower Closeup

Inflorescence

Photo by © DuPuy and Mobot Madagascar Photo List

Another Flower

Photo by © Lourens Grobler.

Plant

Photo by © Peter Stuz and Bulbophyllum from A to Z Website

EARLY

Common Name The Tsingy Occuring Oeceoclades

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in western Madagascar in humus pockets in "Tsingy" at elevations of 60 to 100 meters as a medium sized, warm growing terrestrial with an ovoid pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, broad, dark green horizontally variegated white, ovate leaf that blooms in the early summer on an erect, 12 to 16" [30 to 40 cm] long, densely several flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 44-45 pg 2763 - 2898 Brieger 2001; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Of Men and Orchids Part 1 Jenny 2015 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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