Microterangis hariotiana (Kraenzl.) Senghas 1985 'Willow Pond' CCM 85 pts. Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.

Plant and Flower Photo courtesy of © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

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Common Name Hariot's Microterangis [French Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1/4" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in the Comoros Islands at elevations of sealevel to 750 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short stem carrying 4 to 7 obovate-oblong , unequally obtuse and bilobed apically leaves that blooms with numerous pendant, 8" [20 cm] long racemes of many densly packed, alternate, miniature flowers occuring in the spring.

Synonyms Chamaeangis hariotiana (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1915; *Mystacidium hariotianum Kraenzl. 1897; Saccolabium hariotianum (Kraenzl.) 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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