Angraecum baronii (Finet) Schltr. 1915 SECTION Lemurangis

Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name Baron's Angraecum [English Missionary and Orchid Collector in Madagascar late 1800's]

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar in moss forests at elevations around 2200 to 2400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to cold growing epiphyte with a thin, elongated, compressed stem carrying short, lanceolate, distichous and uneaqually bilobed apically, acute leaves that blooms in the summeron an axillary, 1/2 to 5/8" [6 to 7 mm] long, 1 to 2 flowered, thin inflorescence enveloped basally by 3 ancipitous sheaths and carrying the small flowers close to the stem.

Synonyms Angraecum dichaeoides Schltr. 1916; *Macroplectrum baronii Finet 1907

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A costatum; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981

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