Aerangis articulata [Rchb.f] Schlechter 1914

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Common Name or Meaning The Articulated Aerangis

Flower Size 1 1/4" to 2" [3 to 4 cm]

A small, sized Madagascan and Comoran, epiphytic, hot to warm growing species on trunks and major branches of forest trees at elevations of sealevel to 2000 meters with short, stout stems carrying several obovate or oblong-obovate, coriaceous, obliquely 2 lobed apically leaves that is quite showy when it blooms in the spring and summer on an axillary, 9 to 18" [22.5 to 45 cm] pendant, racemose sometimes branched, stout inflorescence with up to 18 scented, long-lived, waxy flowers. Needs to be mounted on cork or tree fern to best display the pendant inflorescence, given ample shade and high humidity as well as daily waterings through the spring and summer months then increase light and give slightly less through the fall and winter.

Synonyms Aerangis venusta Schltr. 1918; Aerangis calligera (Rchb.f.) Garay 1974; Angorchis articulata (Rchb. f.) Kuntze 1891; *Angraecum articulatum Rchb.f 1872; Angraecum calligerum Rchb.f. 1887; Angraecum descendens Rchb.f 1882; Rhaphidorhynchus articulatus (Rchb. f.) Poiss. 1912

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Encylopedia of Cultivated Orchids Hawkes 1965; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992; An Intorduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006