Angraecum humbertii H.Perrier 1939 SECTION Angraecum Photo by Lourens Grobler

LATE EARLY

Common Name Humbert's Angraecum [French Orchid Collector in Africa, Madagascar and South America early 1900's]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in SW Madagascar growing on rocks in dry forests on the western slopes of mountains at elevations around 800 meters as a small sized, hot to warm growing lithophyte with a short, thick, slightly compressed stem carrying 2 ranked, broadly linear t oloriform, often conduplicate, leathery, slightly glossy, very unequally bilobed apically, lobes rounded, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the late spring and early summer on a robust, 8" [220 cm] long, 4 to 8, successively flowered inflorescence with 2 to 3, acute sheaths and a very thin floral bract

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/85 Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans & Campbell 2006