Angraecum breve Schltr. 1925 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter

Side View of Flower Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Later

Common Name or Meaning The Short Angraecum [refers to the plants sized

Flower Size 1.4" [3.4 cm]

Found in Northern Madagascar on lichen covered trees at elevations around 1800 meters as a mini-miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem with flattened, somtimes verrucose roots and carrying greyish green, stiff, leathery, ligulate, unequally bilobed apically, basally overl;appijng leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, .4" [1 cm] long, single flowered inflorescnece enveloped by 2 to 3, slightly flattened sheaths.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007