Aerangis spiculata (Finet) Senghas 1972 Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Inflorescnece and Andy Phillips Photo By Andy's Orchids
Common Name or Meaning The Spiked Aerangis
Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]
Found in Madagascar and the Comoros in moist evergreen forests at elevations of sealevel to 1000 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with a short, woody stem carrying 2 to 7, elliptic-oblong, cuneate, unequally bilobed apically, gryish to dull green, sometiemes marginally undulate, sometimes reddish leaves that blooms in the spring on a 12 to 30" [30 to 75 cm] long, many [12 to 20] flowered, arching to pendant, inflorescence with longlasting, pure white flowers.
Synonyms Leptocentrum spiculatum (Finet) Schltr. 1915; Plectrelminthus spiculatus (Finet) Summerh. 1949; *Rhaphidorhynchus spiculatus Finet 1907
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981 as Leptocentrum spiculatum; AOS Bulletin Vol 55 No 8 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006
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