OECEOCLADES ROSEOVARIEGATA

This member of the Orchidaceae family was given this name by Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Geoffrey Taylor in 1976. It is found in northern Madagascar, growing in a rich and drained soil with some water and some sun. The pseudobulbs grow to two centimetres with five centimetre speckled leaves (hence the name). The flowers are greenish brown with a white inner with pink spots.

The genera name from Greek oikeios; 'special' or 'separate', and Greek klados; 'branch', probably for the short branches of the former Angraecum maculatum and the mottled leaves, according to Genaust, l.c. It was published by John Lindley in Edwards' Bot. Reg. 18: sub t. 1522. 1832. The species name from Latin rose; the colour and varigata; 'variegated'.