Microcoelia gilpinae (Rchb. f. & S. Moore) Summerh. 1943 Photo by © Eric Hunt and his Orchid Species Photo Website
Another Photo Photos courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Common Name Gilpin's Microcoelia [British Missionary in Madagascar 1800's]
Flower Size 1/2" [1.1 to 1.3 cm]
Found in eastern Madagascar in mossy rainforests on twigs and small branches at elevations of 100 to 1800 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with no, to a very short stem carrying few to many, slender, very long, usually twisted, distally branching roots and blooming in the spring and summer on to 4, simultaneous, basal, terete, 5/8" to 1 3/8" [1.5 to 3.4 cm] long, very densely 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with single, nerved, acute, sheathing bracts and carrying non-scented flowers.
Synonyms *Angraecum gilpinae Rchb. f. & S. Moore 1878; Epidorchis gilpinae (Rchb.f. & S.Moore) Kuntze 1891; Gussonea gilpinae Ridl. 1885; Gussonea melinantha Schltr. 1925; Microcoelia melinantha (Schltr.) Summerh. 1943; Mystacidium gilpinae (Rchb.f. & S.Moore) T.Durand & Schinz 1894; Rhaphidorhynchus gilpinae (Rchb.f. & S.Moore) Finet 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981 as Gussonea gilpinae; A Monograph of the Genus Microcoelia [Orchidaceae] Jonsson 1981 drawing;AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 11 2005 photo; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide
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