Oeonia curvata Bosser 2000 Photo by © Grunenwald Gilles and The Paleo-Orchid WebPage

Common Name The Curved Oeonia

Flower Size .8 to .88" [2 to 2.2 cm]

Found in southcentral Madagascar in humid forests at elevations of 1200 to 1500 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a branched, elongate stem carrying leathery, ovate unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an arising at the base of the leaf sheaths, peduncle spreading, peduncle robust, 2 to 3" [5 to 7.5 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with broadly ovate, shorter than the ovary floral bracts.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; 0 Rudolf Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1C lieferung 42 - 43 pg 2626 - 2762 Brieger 2001; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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