The genus Microcoelia includes approximately 40 species and is found in Madagascar and throughout tropical Africa. Gussonea is a prior name for Solenangis and Microcoelia and is sometimes used in literature and in the trade. The type species is Microcoelia exilis Lindl., 1830. This species is found in Natal province of South Africa, Kenya, Swaziland, Madagascar, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania and Zambia on trees in riverine, lake-shore and coastal forests as a miniature sized, hot to cool growing, leafless twig epiphyte at sea level to 1,800m. It is also occasionally found in high rainfall areas. It is principally epiphytic and rarely lithophytic with the living stem up to 3.5 cm long, usually less. The roots are numerous, much-branched, 1-3 mm in diameter, clinging closely to the substrate when young but later forming hanging masses which often become detached.
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