In situ Madagascar

The forests around Ranomafana, both primary and secondary, are kind of dense, but rather soft, clothes and skin stayed mostly intact, only one encounter with an otherwise cute looking tree fern. As a note of caution, one is expected in the Madagascar parks to gaze at lemurs for longer periods of time, this is competing with the quality time with the orchids. On the brighter side, I was informed lemurs don't forage for orchids a lot, sometimes just the odd Jumellea leaf.

 

I am now back home again, and got some names:
l1) Angraecum arachnites ?
l2) Oberonia disticha
l3) ? It was also difficult to get close to it, higher up a tree and above a stream.
l4) Cynorkis lowiana as already mentioned by Marni. Plenty of them directly on the steep and rather moist side of the carved out road towards the entrance of Ranomafana National Park.
l5) various
l6) Bulbophyllum x
r1) Cynorkis nutans
r2) Bulbophyllum y
r3) Bulbophullum z
r4) see 4)
r5) Oeonia rosea

 

My second and for the time being last Madagascar installment. From Ranomafana we travelled to Andasibe and on the way came across this rather yellow looking Bulbophyllum, but just disguising, the yellow pseudobulbs were light green inside and despite in near full sunshine and the pseudobulbs warm inside, the plants looked just fine.

In the forest around Andasibe also a Microcoelia gipinae
Four years ago we were also in Madagascar and not far from Andasibe Parc des Orchidées had just started with orchid species grafted on trees around a small lake. Unfortunately the park is now not looked after, I guess also because of the lack of tourist during Covid. Many name tags had already broken in pieces but finally a Bulbophyllum with a full name:

Then from Andasibe to Toamasina (Tamatave), in places this port town is well laid out with avenues and the predominate orchid in the trees is Oeoniella polystachys, its common name is The Richly-Blooming Oeoniella, which is not an exaggeration.


You have to take my word for it, it is still Oeoniella polystachys,