!Microterangis hariotiana (Kraenzl.) Senghas 1985

Photo by Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.

Plant and Flower

Photo by © Danny Lentz, plant grown by the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Part sunHotTo WarmSpring

Common Name Hariot's Microterangis [French Orchid Enthusiast 1800's]

Flower Size 1/4" [3 to 4 mm]

Found in the Comoros Islands at elevations of sealevel to 750 meters as a miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing, monopodial epiphyte with a short stem carrying 4 to 7 obovate-oblong , unequally obtuse and bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring with numerous pendant, 8" [20 cm] long racemes of many densly packed, alternate, miniature flowers.

Synonyms Chamaeangis hariotiana (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1915; *Mystacidium hariotianum Kraenzl. 1897; Saccolabium hariotianum (Kraenzl.) Finet 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Otia Botanica Hamburgensia Rchb.f 1881 as Angraecum hildebrandtii; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 as Chamaengis hariotiana drawing good; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger 1985 drawing/photo fide; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 70 No 8 2001 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 74 No 7 2005 photo fide; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; AOS Bulletin Vol 77 No 11 2008 photo; Mille et Une Mini Orchideees Roguenant 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #8 2016 photo fide;

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