Angraecum obversifolium Frapp. ex Cordem. 1895 SECTION Angraecoides Photos by © Dominique Karadjoff

EARLY

Common Name The Turned Towards Angraecum [refers to the basally twisted leaves]

Flower Size

Found in Mauritius and Reunion in shady forests at elevations of 1000 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm growing epiphyte with elongate, curved, erect to pendant stems carrying 2 ranked, towards the apex, thin, the obverse turned outwards, falcate, minutely bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the spring through early summer on an axillary, very slender, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence that arises from the same point on the stem for several years.

Synonyms Mystacidium obversifolium (Frapp. ex Cordem.) Cordem 1899

References W3 Tropicos Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006