Angraecum linearifolium Garay 1972 SECTION Arachnangraecum Photo by © Marni Turkel

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Common Name The Linear Leaved Angraecum

Flower Size 4" [10 cm]

Found in northern and east central Madagascar in humid mossy evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 2500 meters as a slender, small sized, hot to cool, pendent growing epiphyte often confused with A teretifolium with an elongate stem carrying 6 to 12, in 2 rows, filiform leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, long, slender, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Angraecum palmiforme H.Perrier 1955

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , Field Guide ToThe Orchids of Madagscar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo ok

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