Phaius longibracteatus (S.Moore) Frapp. ex Cordem. 1895

Inflorescence Photo by © Orchids of Reunion website

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Common Name The Elongate Bract Phaius

Flower Size .22" [6mm]

Found in Reunion and Madagascar on shaded mossy trees and rocks at elevations of 1700 to 2400 meters as a small to just medium sized, cool to cold growing epiphytes and lithophytes with numerous narrow tubers giving rise to a stem bearing 2 to 3, above the base, distant, lanceolate, acute sheaths that gradually smaller and with oblong-lanceolate, attenuate-acute apically leaves that blooms in the later summer through fall on an erect, cylindrical, to 6" [15 cm] long, very dense, numerous flowered inflorescence with linear, as long to much longer than the flower floral bracts with the flowers becoming smaller in length towards the base

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/85; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Lieferung 15 881 - 944 Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas 1984; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007;

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