Oeceoclades alismatophylla

Oeceoclades alismatophylla is a species of orchid in the genus "Oeceoclades" that is native to Comoros and northeastern Madagascar. It was first described by the German botanist Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach in 1885 as "Eulophia alismatophylla" and later transferred to the genus "Eulophidium" in 1957 by V.S. Summerhayes. When Leslie Andrew Garay and Peter Taylor revised the genus "Oeceoclades" in 1976, they transferred this species to the expanded "Oeceoclades" as "O. alismatophylla". Garay and Taylor noted that this species is broadly similar in vegetative morphology to "O. analamerensis", "O. lonchophylla", and "O. petiolata" but could be distinguished from them in floral morphology, with "O. alismatophylla" having lateral labellum lobes that are larger than the middle one.