Oeceoclades flavescens Bosser & Morat 2001 <

TYPE Collection sheet and drawing by Boser and Morat and Museum National D'Historie Naturelle Website

Plant

Photo by Mike Dorris

LATER

Common Name The Yellowish Oeceoclades

Flower Size .72 to .8" [1.8 to 2 cm]

Found in northeastern Madagascar in humid coastal forests at elevations of sealevel to 20 meters as a small to medium sized, hot growing terrestrial with a glabrous rhizome giving rise to conical, .4 to .8" [1 to 2 cm] between each, heteroblastic pseudobulb carrying a single, apical, oblong to narrowly lanceolate, acute, papery, 3 to 5 main nervede, attenuate below into the canaliculate, petiolate base leaf that blooms in the later spring on an erect, peduncle 12 to 12.8" [30 to 32 cm] long, provided with 3 to 4 basal, imbricate, membraneous sheaths and 2 to 3 cauline shaeths above, rachis 4 to 5.2" [10 to 13 cm] long, simple, 10 to 12 flowered inflorescence with oval, shorter than the ovary floral bracts

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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