Oeonia volucris (Thouars) Spreng. 1826
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Rudi Hromniak and his © and his Orchid Webpage
Common Name The Twisted Snail Oeonia
Flower Size 1"+ [2.5 cm]
Found in the eastern coastal forests of Madagascar at elevations of sealevel to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying sparse, distant, oval-oblong or elliptical leaves that are somewhat attenuate to the sheath that blooms in the fall on a 12 to 14" [30 to 35 cm] long, loosely many flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Aeranthus volucris Rchb.f 1864; *Epidendrum volucre Thou 1822; Epidorchis volucris Kuntze 1891; Oeonia auberti Lindl. 1824; Oeonia humblotii Kranzl. 1909
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Epidendrum volucre drawing fide; The Encyclopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1985; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981; Die Orchideen 3 Auflage Bd 1 Sonderabdruck aus Schlechter Brieger, Maatsch and Senghas # 48-49 Vandeae 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 66 No 10 1997 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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