Aeranthes adenopoda H.Perrier 1938

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

Full shade Warm Cool Summer Fall

Common Name The Swollen Column Foot Aeranthes

Flower Size 1/2" [1.3 cm]

Found in eastern Madagascar in humid forrests at elevations around 800 to 1740 meters as a small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with no stem and 7 to 10, thin and gradually attenuate towards the base, lanceolate-linear leaves that blooms in the summer through fall from below the leaves on numerous, erect, 1.4" [3.5 cm] long, usually single flowered inflorescence with small, transparent flowers.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1938/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Die Orchideen lieferung 16/17/18 Brieger etal 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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