Side View of Flower

Inflorescence and Plant in situ on rocks Madgascar Photo by © Labat and Mobot Madagascar Photo List

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Common Name The Shovel-Like Neobathiea [refers to the shape of the sepals]

Flower Size 1/4" [8mm]

Found in northwestern Madgascar in deciduous forests on calcareous rocks at elevations of sea level to 300 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot growing lithophyte with a sleafy stem carrying many, elliptic, leaves that blooms innthe late spring and early summer on an axillary, 1 to 3.2" [2.5 to 8 cm] long, 1 to 7 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide

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