Oeceoclades humbertii (H.Perrier) Bosser & Morat 2001 Photo by © The Earth.comWebsite
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Common Name Humbert's Oeceoclades [French Botanist in Madgascar 1900's]
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Found in southeastern Madagascar in xerophytic forests at elevations of 400 to 600 meters as a medium sized, hot to warm growing terresttrial with small, conical,heteroblastic pseudobullbsleaves that are not developed at blooming occuring in the late spring and early summer on an erect, thin, peduncle shorter to much longer than the rachis, provided with 3 to 4, basal, scarious, grey, loose sheaths, rachis loosely 10 to 20 flowered inflorescence with narrow, acute, single veined, as long as to about 1/3 the length of the pedicel floral bracts.
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Synonyms Eulophia humbertii (H.Perrier) Butzin 1975; *Lissochilus humbertii H.Perrier 1939
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Lissochilus humberti; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; AOS Bulletin Vol 86 # 7 2017 photo fide;
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