Imerinaea madagascarica Schltr. 1924

Drawing by © Perrier # 2, 3 & 4

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Common Name The Madagascar Imerinaea

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Found in Madagascar in mossy and lichen rich humid montane forests or on shaded and humid rocks at elevations of 1000 to 1500 as a small sized, warm to cool growing terrestrial with a short rhizome giving rise to obscure, cylindrical pseduobulbs carrying a single, erect, narrowly ligulate-lanceolate, acuminate, somewhat petiolate below into the base leaf that blooms in the late spring through fall on a terminal, erect, slender, slighly longer than the leaf, racemose, few flowered inflorescence carrying non-resupinate flowers

Synonyms Phaius gibbosulus H.Perrier 1955

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; 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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