Angraecum filicornu Thouars 1822 SECTION Filangis Garay Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.

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Common Name or Meaning The Angraecum with a Thread-Like Spur

Flower Size 2/3" [2cm]

This miniature to small sized, hot to warm growing epiphytic species is found in Eastern Madagascar in rainforests at an elevation of 800 to 900 meters with slightly falttened stems carrying several, 2 ranked, thin and grass-like, linear leaves that blooms in the summer through winter on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Aeranthes thouarsii S.Moore 1877; Aerobion filicornu (Thouars) Spreng. 1826

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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