Ossiculum aurantiacum P.J.Cribb & Laan 1986

Plant and Inflorescence in situ Cameroon Photos by Vincent Droissart and His West African Orchid Website

Common Name or Meaning The Orange Ossiculum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in southwetern Cameroon on thick branches in primary forests as a mini-minature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a short, erect stem enveloped completely by imbricating, leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying 2 ranked, thick and fleshy, oblong-lanceolate, obliquely and obtusely bliobed apically leaves that blooms on axillary, 3/4" [1.8cm] long, 9 to 15, densely flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angreacoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006

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