Angraecum humblotianum Schltr. 1915 SECTION Pectinaria
Photo by © Marni Turkel
TYPE Drawing of A abietinum by © Schlechter
Drawing of A finetianum by © Perrier
Common Name Humblot's Angraecum [French Botanist in Madagascar 1800's]
Flower Size .4" [1 cm]
Found in eastern Madagascar and the Comoros Islands at elevations of sea level to 900 meters as a miniature sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with an erect, rigid, simple to branched stem carrying numerous, alternate 2 ranked, very thick, fleshy, linear-cylindric, narrow leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, single flowered inflorescence with an obtuse and very wide floral bract and carrying a small white flower
Synonyms Angraecum abietinum Schltr. 1925; Angraecum finetianum Schltr. 1918; Angraecum humblotii (Finet) Summerh. 1947; Macroplectrum humblotii Finet 1907; Pectinariella humblotiana (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;
* Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 33(2): 434 Schlechter 1915
Beih. Bot. Centralbl. 36(2): 158 Schlechter 1918 as A finetianum
Mém. Soc. Bot. France 9: 22 Finet 1907 as Macroplectum humboltii;
Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. Beih. 33: 313 Schlecheter 1925 as A abietinum;
Flora of Madagascar: 233 Perrier 1939/81 as A abietinum;
Flora of Madagascar: 232 Perrier 1939/81 as A finetianum
Flora of Madagascar: 235 Perrier 1939/81 as A finetianumdrawing fide;
Kew Bull. 2: 133 Summerhayes 1947 publ. 1948 as A humblotii nom illegal;
Kew Bull. 20: 188 Summerhayes 1966 as A abietinum
An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;
Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006;
Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide;
Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Biodivers. Res. Conservation 29: 19 Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013 as Pectinariella humblotiana
AOS Bulletin Vol 83 #9 2014 photo fide;
Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;
A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 as Pectinariella humblotiana photo fide;
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