Physoceras bellum Schltr. 1924 Drawing by Perrier #13

LATER THROUGH

Common Name or Meaning The Beautiful Physoceras

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in north Madagascar in lichen rich montane forests at elevations around 1500 to 2000 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte or terrestrial with an elongate, petiolate into the cordate base, elliptic, acuminate leaf that blooms in the later winter through summer on a terminal, erect, few flowered inflorescence

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 drawing fide; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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