Aeranthes nidus Schltr. 1925 GROUP 3 Photo by © Lourens Grobler

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Nest-Like Aeranthes [refers to the clumping plants and roots]]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in N Madagascar in forests on moss and lichen covered trees at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a warm to cool growing epiphyte with several stems which colonize and make large clumpinf masses around tree trunks with elongated stems enveloped compeltetly by leaf sheaths and carrying narrowly linear, barrowing towards the base to form a pseudopetiolate base leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on many, erect, 1 to 1.2" [2.5 to 3 cm] long, successively single flowered, all along the stem inflorescence that can rebloom for years and are enveloped by a few widely separated sheaths

Synonyms Aeranthes pseudonida H.Perrier 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1938/85 as Aeranthes pseudonida; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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