Angraecum sacculatum Schltr. 1925 SECTION Gomphocentrum [Bentham] Garay

TYPE Collection Sheet by © Perrier

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Common Name The Small Sac Angraecum [refers tothe spur shape]

Flower Size

Found in central east Madagascar in woods on the wesern slopes in moss forests at elevations of 1300 to 2000 meters as a small sized, cool growing epiphyte with a short stem carrying many, linear, obliquely bilobed, subacute apically, somewhat attenuate at the base leaves that blooms in the late winter, spring and summer on an erect, very slender, peduncle bristle-like, to 2.4" [6 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with oval-acuminate, much shorter than the ovary floral bracts and carrying very small, yellowish flowers.

Synonyms Gomphocentrum sacculatum (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2006 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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