Inflorescence Photo by © DuPuy and Mobot Madagascar Photo List

THROUGH EARLY

Common Name Decary's Vanilla [French Botanist in Madagascar 1900's]

Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]

Found in northwestern and southern Madagascar in dry deciduous scrub at elevations up to 700 meters as a large sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a brownish green, warty stem that blooms in the spring through early summer on a 20 to 40 successively flowered inflorescence

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 ; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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