Angraecum lecomtei H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter

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

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Common Name Lecomte's Angraecum [refers to the flowers color]

Flower Size 3/4" x 8"

Found in Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 1200 meters as a super miniature sized [2"] sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with acaulis, 3 to 6, archedc to erect, linear, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a single flowered, .2 to .5" [1 to 1.2 cm] inflorescence arising from below the leaves and completely enveloped by 3 obtuse compressed, dorsally enlarged sheaths and carrying the giant [for the plant size] flower with an 8" [20 cm] long spur.

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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; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981

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