Angraecum pungens Schltr.1906 SECTION Pectinaria Photo by © Art Vogel

Common Name The Pointed Angraecum [refers to the lip]

Flower Size .6" [1.5 cm]

Found in Nigeria, Gabon, Gulf of Guinea Islands, Cameroon and Zaire in dense forests at elevations of 900 to 1800 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with pendant stems carrying close set, oblong-lanceolate, flat, pointed, basally narrowing leaves that blooms at most any time of the year on an axillary, sessile, single flowered inflorescence.

Synonyms Angraecopsis pungens (Schltr.) R.Rice 2005; Angraecum arthrophyllum (Kraenzl.) Schltr. 1925; Mystacidium arthrophyllum Kraenzl. 1916

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide

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