''Oeceoclades petiolata'' is a terrestrial orchid species 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 to northern and western Madagascar. It was first described by the German botanist Rudolf Schlechter in 1913 as ''Eulophia petiolata''. Schlechter later moved this species to the genus ''Eulophidium'' in 1925. It was again moved to the genus ''Lissochilus'' by the French botanist Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie in 1941 and last transferred the genus ''Oeceoclades'' in 1976 by

Leslie Andrew Garay Leslie Andrew Garay (August 6, 1924 - August 19, 2016), born Garay László András, was an American botanist. He was the curator of the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at Harvard University, where he succeeded Charles Schweinfurth in 1958. In 1957 h ...

and Peter Taylor. Garay and Taylor noted that this species is almost identical to '' O. alismatophylla'' in vegetative morphology, but the two differ in the shape of the labellum on the flower. The labellum is fiddle-shaped and has three thickened veins in front of the calli.Garay, L.A., and P. Taylor. 1976
The genus ''Oeceoclades'' Lindl.
''Botanical Museum Leaflets, Harvard University'' 24(9): 249-274.

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petiolata Endemic flora of Madagascar Plants described in 1913 {{Cymbidieae-stub