Aeranthes aemula Schltr. 1925
Plant & Flowers Photo courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Common Name or Meaning The Similar Aeranthes
Flower Size 2" [5 cm]
Found in central Madagascar in lichen & mossy forests at elevations of 450 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with 4 to 6, linear to ligualte leaves that blooms in the summer on an erect to spreading, shortly branched, to 16" [to 40 cm] long, successively single, few flowered inflorescence
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2006; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide
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