''Oeceoclades callmanderi'' is a species of terrestrial
orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.
Along with the Asteraceae, they are one of the two largest families of flowering ...
in the genus ''
Oeceoclades
''Oeceoclades'', collectively known as the monk orchids, is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. It is related to '' Eulophia'' and like that genus is mostly terrestrial in habit. A few species extend into very arid en ...
'' that is
endemic
Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to northeastern
Madagascar
Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
,
where it grows in the coastal forests of
Cape Masoala. It was first described by the French botanist
Jean Marie Bosser
Jean Marie Bosser (23 December 1922 – 6 December 2013), sometimes listed as Jean-Michel Bosser was a French botanist and agricultural engineer who worked extensively in Madagascar and Mauritius.
Bosser was a researcher at the Laboratoire de Pha ...
in 2006 and named in honor of one of the collectors, M. W. Callmander.
[Bosser, J. 2006]
Contribution à l'étude des Orchidaceae de Madagascar, des Comores et des Mascareignes. XXXV. Description d'un ''Oeceoclades'' nouveau de Madagascar, et notes sur trois genres nouveaux pour les Mascareignes.
''Adansonia'', sér 3., 28(1): 45-54.
References
callmanderi
Orchids of Madagascar
Endemic flora of Madagascar
Plants described in 2006
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