Angraecum appendiculoides Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lepervenchea

Another plant in situ in Madagascar Photo courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Later

Common Name or Meaning The Appendicula-Like Angraecum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm]

Found in central Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 1700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, pendant and warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying many spreading, oval-lanceolate, cordate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, lax, 4 to 7 flowered, inflorescence with broadly oval-acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bract

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo

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