Oeceoclades analavelensis

Oeceoclades analavelensis is a terrestrial orchid species in the genus "Oeceoclades" that is endemic to southwestern Madagascar. It was first described by the French botanist Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie in 1939 as "Lissochilus analavelensis". The English botanist V.S. Summerhayes later transferred this species to the genus "Eulophidium" in 1957. When Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor revised the genus "Oeceoclades" in 1976, they transferred this species to the expanded "Oeceoclades".
Garay and Taylor noted that "O. analavelensis" is similar in floral morphology to "O. sclerophylla", but the two differ in vegetative morphology.