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Common Name The Branched Angraecum

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Found in Reunion and Mauritius in rain forests on rocks, trees and on the ground at elevations of sea-level to 1500 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte, lithophyte or terrestrial with a long, branching, scandent, pendant to horizontal to erect stem carrying widely spaced, 2 ranked, lanceoalte, linear, widest near the base, then gradually narrowing towards the slightly unequally bilobed apex leaves that blooms in the late winter and early spring on an axillary, opposite a leaf base, single flowered, curved, 2" [5 cm] long inflorescence with a fleshy, white, turning yellowish with age, fragrant flower

CAUTION I cannot be sure of this determination as I have no references that show what the flower should be. Use with extreme caution

Synonyms Angorchis ramosa (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Macroplectrum ramosum (Thouars) Finet 1907

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing ok; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids 1965; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006

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