Microcoelia koehleri (Schltr.) Summerh 1943 Photo by Bob Campbell ©,

Common Name Koehler's Microcoelia

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Nigeria, Zaire, Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi in riverine and evergreen forests and on lake shores at elevations of 1000 to 1250 meters as a miniature sized, warm growing epiphyte with numerous, terete to slighly flattened, greenish-grey, fairly closely attached roots with scute to acuminate scale leaves that blooms in the spring and fall on several, erect to spreading, to 3" [to 7 cm] long, densely to 20 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Angraecum koehleri Schltr.1906; Gussonea friesii Schltr. 1916; Gussonea koehleri (Schltr.) Schltr.1918 ; Microcoelia friesii (Schltr.) Summerh.1939

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Kenya Stewart & Campbell 1996; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Part 2 Pope 1998; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006