Microcoelia caespitosa (Rolfe) Summerh. 1936

Plant and Inflorescence in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Caespitose Microcoelia

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in Siera Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guiinea,Gabon, Zaire and Uganda at elevations of 50 to 1000 meteres in rainforests on understorey branches often near watercourses, as a small sized, hot to warm growing terrestrial with a long branching, loosely attached pendulous roots attached to a short stout, central stem that blooms in the spring therough fall on to 15, erect to spreading, 1.2 to 2.4" [3 to 6 cm] long, to22 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Angraecum andersonii Rolfe 1912; Angraecum bieleri De Wild. 1916; *Angraecum caespitosum Rolfe 1897; Angraecum crinale De Wild. 1904; Angraecum micropetalum Schltr. 1905; Gussonea bieleri (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Gussonea caespitosa (Rolfe) Schltr.1918; Gussonea crinalis (De Wild.) Schltr. 1918; Gussonea micropetala (Schltr.) Schltr.1914; Microcoelia bieleri (De Wild.) Summerh. 1943; Microcoelia micropetala (Schltr.) Summerh. 1943;

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Tropical East Africa Orchidaceae Part 3 Cribb 1989; Angreacoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006