!Beclardia macrostachya (Thouars) A. Rich. 1828

Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

Common Name The Large Inflorescence Beclardia

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar and the Mascarenes at elevations of sealevel to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a narrow, somewhat compressed, very short stem carrying 5 to 12 linear oblong,emarginate apically leaves that blooms in the spring through fall on an 8" to 16" [20 to 40 cm] long, loosely 5 to 12 flowered, racemose inflorescence partially enveloped by 5 very short sheaths.

Synonyms Aeranthes brachystachya (Thouars) Bojer 1837; Aeranthes macrostachya (Thouars) Rchb.f. 1864; Aerides macrostachyon (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Beclardia brachystachya (Thouars) A.Rich. 1828; Beclardia erostris Frapp. ex Cordem. 1895; Beclardia grandiflora Bosser 1997; Epidendrum brachystachyum Thouars 1822; *Epidendrum macrostachyum Thouars 1822; Epidorchis brachystachya (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Epidorchis macrostachya (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Oeonia brachystachya (Thouars) Lindl. 1833; Oeonia erostris Cordem. 1895; Oeonia erostris var. egena Cordem. 1895; Oeonia erostris var. robusta Cordem. 1895; Oeonia macrostachya (Thouars) Lindl. 1833; Rhaphidorhynchus macrostachys (Thouars) Finet 1907; Rhaphidorhynchus macrostachys var. brachystachyus (Thouars) Finet 1907;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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