Physoceras lageniferum H.Perrier 1955

Plant in situ Reunion Photos by © Rogier van Vugt and his P Base Orchid Photo Website

Common Name or Meaning The Bottle-Shaped Physoceras

Flower Size

Found in northeastern Madagascar in forests on rocks at elevations of 1000 to 1500 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial or lithophyte with a basal, narrowly lanceolate leaf and another distantly above that blooms on a terminal, erect, successively 6 to 12 flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Cynorkis lagenifera (H.Perrier) Hermans & P.J.Cribb 2017

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009;

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