Angraecum pinifolium Bosser 1970 SECTION Boryangraecum
Plant and Flower Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
EARLY
Common Name or Meaning The Pine-Needle Like Leaf Angraecum
Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]
Found in northeastern Madagascar in shady forests at elevations around 900 meters as a miniature to just small sized, warm growing epiphyte with almost no stem carrying 4 to 5, narrowly linear, canaliculate on the top surface, rounded below, unequally bilobed apically, acute leaves that blooms in the early summer on a below the leaf, lax, shorter than the leaves, 2.4 to 4" [6 to 10 cm] long, 2 to 4 flowered inflorescence with oval, green bracts.carrying fleshy flowers
I am fairly sure that this determination is incorrect as the flowers should be smaller and sepals and petals much closer together, but I do not ahve an original drawing to inspect so cannot be sure.
Synonyms
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo not
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