Aerangis modesta [Hkr.]Schlechter 1914 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Flower Closeup Photo courtesy of Tony Watkinson
Photo courtesy of David Jubineau and His Bulbophyllum Pages Copyright ©
Photos by Jay Pfahl
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Modest Aerangis
Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]
A small sized, Madagascan and Comoran species that occurs at altitudes of 100 to 1500 meters as an hot to warm growing epiphyte with 6" [15 cm] or shorter stems carrying obovate, fleshy-coriaceous, bilobed apically leaves and blooms in the spring to early summer on a to 20" [50 cm] long, pendant inflorescence with 6 to 15 well spaced, waxy, fragrant, long-lived flowers, often with the apical flower opening first and being the largest .
Synonyms Aerangis crassipes Schlechter 1918 ; Aerangis modesta O.Ktze. 1914; Angorchis modesta (Hook. f.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum modestum Hkr. 1883; Angraecum sanderianum Rchb.f 1888; Rhaphidorhynchus modestus (Hook. f.) Finet 1907; Rhaphidorhynchus modestus var. sanderianus (Rchb. f.) Poiss. 1912
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 8 1986 photo; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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