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Oeceoclades lanceata

Oeceoclades lanceata is a terrestrial orchid from central Madagascar with rose-colored flowers. It is a species in the Oeceoclades genus, and its care is best matched to other shade-tolerant terrestrial Oeceoclades orchids.

Family
Orchidaceae (Orchid family)
Grows as
Orchid
Light
Part shade, Bright indirect
Water
Keep the mix evenly moist during growth and let it dry slightly between waterings in the resting period.
Soil
Free-draining terrestrial orchid mix with some bark or perlite.
Temperature
18–28 °C; protect below 12 °C.
How easy
Moderate

About

Oeceoclades lanceata is a terrestrial orchid species in the genus Oeceoclades that is endemic to central Madagascar. The flowers are rose-colored. It was first described by the French botanist Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie in 1935 as Eulophia lanceata. Perrier then later reduced the species to a synonym of Eulophia pandurata (now Oeceoclades pandurata). The species was resurrected and transferred to the genus Oeceoclades in 1976 by Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor, who argued that O. lanceata and O. pandurata are distinct with regard to their floral structure and shape of the labellum. Garay and Taylor noted that O. lanceata is similar in vegetative morphology to O. seychellarum.

Other Eulophia plants

Wild coco · Eulophia andamanensis · Green corduroy orchid · Sourveld Harlequin · Eulophia dabia · Eulophia dentata · Giant orchid · Sword Harlequin · Eulophia euglossa · Eulophia gracilis · Chinese Crown Orchid · Eulophia guineensis

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Oeceoclades lanceata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

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