Angraecum penzigianum Schltr. 1925 SECTION Pseudojumellea

Plant In Situ Mt Adringitra Madagascar Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Later

Common Name or Meaning Penzing's Angraecum [German Orchid Enthusiast 1900's]

Flower Size 2" [5 cm]

Found in Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations of 1500 to 1800 meters as a small to medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem erect, then pendant, occasionally branching, slightly flattened stem carrying many, 2 ranked, ligualte, fleshy, glossy, shortly unequally bilobed apically leaves that bloom in the later summer on an axillary, [5 to 6" [12.5 to 15 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with oval-apiculate bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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