Angraecum sambiranoense Schltr. 1925 SECTION Perrrierangraecum Photo courtesy of Ben Berliner and Willow Pond Orchids.

Common Name The Sambirano Angraecum [Madagascar Valley]

Flower Size 1 1/8" [3 cm]

A just medium sized, pendant, hot to warm growing epiphytic species from northwestern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 700 to 800 meters with slender stems carrying many leathery, oblong-ligulate, spreading, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, sheath covered inflorescence with a single fragrant flower.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009

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