EXSICCATAE #:    00644779
TROPICOS #:      23502395
TAXON:           Grammangis ellisii (Lindl.) Rchb. f.
DET. BY:         G.E. Schatz (MO), 1990 
COUNTRY:         Madagascar
PROV|DEPT|DIST:  Toamasina
LOWER POLITICAL: 
LOCALITY:        Nosy Mangabe RS
BETWEEN/AND:     
VICINITY:        Nosy Mangabe, a 520 hectare island in the Bay of 
                   Antongil, 5 km S of Maroansetra. 
ELEV:            0-330 m
COORD:           15.30S 49.46E
COLLECTOR:       G.E. Schatz & E. Carlson 
NUMBER:          2937
COLL.DATE:       2-19 January 1990
INSTITUTIONS:    MO
SPECIMEN INFO:   UNICATE; epiphyte on vertical liana 6 m above ground; 
                   pseudo bulb dark green; leaves medium green; inflorescence
	           axes, bracts light green; pedicel light green; sepals
                   olive-yellow outside, with a band of dark purple at apex,
                   alternating bands of olive-yellow and dark purple spotted
                   with olive-yellow inside; upper petals light green,
                   reddish tint and striping at recurved apex; lower petal
                   (lip) light whitish green with red at apex outside,
                   striped yellow and red inside; column light green;
	           pollinium golden; nectary at base of lower petal yellow;
                   flowers pickled; photo. 
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