Microcoelia

{{Short description|Genus of orchids}}

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| image = Microcoelia aphylla (Thouars) Summerh. cultivated in the Botanical Garden of the University of Regensburg 3.jpg

| image_caption = Microcoelia aphylla (Thouars) Summerh. cultivated in the Botanical Garden of the University of Regensburg

| image2 = Angraecum chiloschistae - Harry Bolus - Orchids of South Africa - volume I tab. 6 (1896).jpg

| image2_caption = Microcoelia exilis Lindl., 1830 (syn. Angraecum chiloschistae)

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| taxon = Microcoelia

| authority = Lindl.

| type_species = Microcoelia exilis

| type_species_authority = Lindl.

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| synonyms =

• Microcaelia Hochst. ex A.Rich.
• Dicranotaenia Finet
• Rhaphidorhynchus Finet
• Encheiridion Summerh.

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Microcoelia is a genus of orchids native to sub-Saharan Africa as well as to Madagascar and other islands of the Indian Ocean.[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=126979 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Monocotyledons Database in ACCESS: 1-71827. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/393322#page/75/mode/1up Lindley, John. 1830. Genera and Species of Orchidaceous Plants 60-61.]

1. Microcoelia aphylla (Thouars) Summerh. - from Kenya and Uganda south to KwaZulu-Natal, plus Madagascar, Mauritius and Réunion
2. Microcoelia aurantiaca (Schltr.) Summerh. - Madagascar
3. Microcoelia bispiculata L.Jonss. - Madagascar
4. Microcoelia bulbocalcarata L.Jonss. - Príncipe, Cameroon, Gabon, Uganda, Rwanda
5. Microcoelia caespitosa (Rolfe) Summerh. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel - western and central Africa from Liberia to Zaïre and Uganda
6. Microcoelia corallina Summerh. - Tanzania, Mozambique, Malawi
7. Microcoelia cornuta (Ridl.) Carlsward - Madagascar, Comoros
8. Microcoelia decaryana L.Jonss. - Madagascar
9. Microcoelia dolichorhiza (Schltr.) Summerh. - Madagascar
10. Microcoelia elliotii (Finet) Summerh. - Madagascar
11. Microcoelia exilis Lindl. - from Kenya and Uganda south to KwaZulu-Natal, plus Madagascar
12. Microcoelia gilpinae (Rchb.f. & S.Moore) Summerh. - Madagascar
13. Microcoelia globulosa (Hochst.) L.Jonss. - from Nigeria east to Eritrea, south to Angola and Zimbabwe
14. Microcoelia hirschbergii Summerh. - Zaïre, Zambia
15. Microcoelia jonssonii Szlach. & Olszewski - Central African Republic
16. Microcoelia koehleri (Schltr.) Summerh. - from Nigeria to Tanzania, south to Zimbabwe
17. Microcoelia konduensis (De Wild.) Summerh - western and central Africa
18. Microcoelia leptostele (Summerh.) L.Jonss. - Central African Republic, Zaïre
19. Microcoelia macrantha (H.Perrier) Summerh. - Madagascar
20. Microcoelia macrorhynchia (Schltr.) Summerh. in J.Hutchinson & J.M.Dalziel - central Africa
21. Microcoelia megalorrhiza (Rchb.f.) Summerh. - Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi
22. Microcoelia microglossa Summerh. - central Africa
23. Microcoelia moreauae L.Jonss - Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
24. Microcoelia nyungwensis L.Jonss. - Rwanda
25. Microcoelia obovata Summerh. - from Kenya south to KwaZulu-Natal
26. Microcoelia ornithocephala P.J.Cribb - Malawi
27. Microcoelia perrieri (Finet) Summerh. - Madagascar
28. Microcoelia physophora (Rchb.f.) Summerh. - Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar
29. Microcoelia sanfordii L.Jonss - Cameroon
30. Microcoelia smithii (Rolfe) Summerh. - Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi
31. Microcoelia stolzii (Schltr.) Summerh. - Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe