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Common Name The Spurred Oeceoclades

Flower Size

Found in western Madagascar in dry moss and lichen forest with sandy or rocky soils at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a large sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with green, conical, 5-angled, bare pseudobulbs carrying 5 to 9, widely linear, thick, coriaceous, very unequally bilobed apically, dark green with white mottled leaves that blooms in the late spring and fall on an axillary 3' to 3.5' [1.2 m to 1.5 m] long, 20 to 40 flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms *Cymbidium calcaratum Schltr. 1913; Eulophia calcarata (Schltr.) Schltr. 1925; Eulophia paniculata Rolfe 1905; Eulophidium paniculatum (Rolfe) Summerh. 1957; Lissochilus paniculatus (Rolfe) H.Perrier 1941

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983 as Lissochilus paniculatus

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