Angraecum sororium Schltr. 1925 SECTION Angraecum Photo courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Plant and Flowers Photo by Bob Campbell and the Orchids of Kenya ©,

Common Name or Meaning The Closely Related Angraecum [refers to it's similarity to A sesquipedale]

Flower Size 5" [12.5 cm]

Found in central Madgtascar in and among rocks in full sun tempered by mist and clouds at elevations of 1600 to 2200 meters as a large sized, warm to cool growing lithophyte with an erect stem enveloped in maturity by several leafless dry, brown sheaths and carrying many, stiff, ligulate, in 2 upright rows, unequally bilobed apically, shiney bright green leaves that blooms in the summer on several, axillary, shorter than the leaves, 1 to 4 flowered inflorescence with obtuse bracts.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007