Calanthe madagascariensis Rolfe ex Hook.f. 1901 SECTION Calanthe Photos Lourens Grobler

LATE EARLY

Common Name The Madagascar Calanthe

Flower Size 1.5" [3.75 cm]

Found in forests of northern and eastern Madagascar at elevations around 600 to 2100 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial orchid with a pseudobulb-like stem carrying 5 to 7, oval-lanceolate, plicate, undulate-crisped marginally, attenuate into the shortly petioleate leaves and attenuate to the apex that blooms in the fall on a below the leaf axils, 8" [20 cm] long, pubescent, densely 10 to 15 flowered inflorescence with 3 sterile, obtuse or rounded apically bracts and holding the flowers in an apical cluster.

Synonyms Calanthe madagascariensis Rolfe 1906; Calanthe warpuri Rolfe 1906

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81 refers to Calanthe madagascariensis Rolfe 1906; Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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