Oeonia volucris (Thouars) Spreng. 1826
Photos by Rudi Hromniak © and his Orchid Webpage
EARLY
Common Name The Twisted Snail Oeonia
Flower Size 1"+ [2.5 cm]
Found in the eastern coastal forests of Madagascar at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying sparse, distant, oval-oblong or elliptical leaves that are somewhat attenuate to the sheath that blooms in the summer, fall and early winter on a 12 to 14" [30 to 35 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aeranthus volucris Rchb.f 1864; *Epidendrum volucre Thou 1822; Epidorkis volucris Kuntze 1891; Oeonia auberti Lindl. 1824; Oeonia humblotii Kranzl. 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Epidendrum volucre drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 drawing fide; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as O elliotii; The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 photo fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; The Manual Of Cultivated Orchid Species Bechtel, Cribb & Launert 1992 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 10 1997 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006 photo fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; The Orchid Review Vol 127 No 1328 December 2019 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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