Angraecum stolzii Schltr. 1915 SECTION Angraecoides Specimen by © Rev G Philip Leedal and JSTOR Plant Sciences Website

Partial sun Warm Cold LATE Winter EARLYSpring

Common Name Stolz's Angraecum [German Missionary and Plant Collector in Tanzania 1800's early 1900's ]

Flower Size 3/4" [1.8cm]

Found in Zaire, Tanzania, Malawi, and Zambia in montane and riverine forests at elevations of sea level to 1800 meters as a mini-miniature to medium sized, hot to cool, erect to pendent growing epiphyte with an erect to pendent, ancipitous stem carrying 2 ranked, all along the stem, linear, falcate, grass green, obtuse to unequally bilobed apically, twisted at the base so as to all lie in one plane leaves that blooms in the spring on 1 to 4, axillary, .8 to 1.2" [2 to 3 cm] long, single flowered inflorescence with ovate, acute to apiculate bracts.

"This species is characterised by the elongated stems with usually rather small greenish or ochre-coloured flowers. Each inflorescence axis continues to grow from year to year, producing a single flower each year and forming a kind of woody spur, more or less at right angles to the stem, bearing the dead peduncles of the previous flowers with the current years flower at the extreme end. A similar structure is seen in the plate of A multiflorum Thou. (Orch. Iles Austr. Afr. t. 74: 182} but in that species each years growth bears several small flowers." Summerhayes 1958

Synonyms Angraecoides stolzii (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Conchograecum stolzii (Schltr.) Szlach., Grochocka, Oledrz. & Mytnik 2018

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ;

Kew Bull. 13: 273 Summerhayes 1958 The Orchids of South Central Africa Williamson 1977 drawing/photo fide; Malawi Orchids Vol 1 La Croix 1983 drawing fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Tropical East Africa Part 3 Cribb 1989 drawing fide; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998 drawing fide

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