Peristylus citrinus (Thouars) Lindl. 1835

Inflorescence Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Common Name or Meaning The Lemon-Yellow Peristylus

Flower Size

Found in Mauritius and Reunion Islands in humid forests at moderate elevations as a terrestrial orchid with a few lower elliptic-lacneoalte, obtuse, basally clasping leaves that blooms on a terminal, erect, successively many flowered inflorescence with acuminate bracts..

Synonyms *Habenaria citrina Thouars 1822; Platanthera citrina (Thouars) Kraenzl. 1899

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as Habenaria citrina drawing fide;

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