Angraecum acutipetalum Schltr. 1916 SECTION Gomphocentrum [Bent.] Garay
Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Photo courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
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Common Name The Pointed Petal Angraecum
Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]
Found in central Madagascar in moss and lichen forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with a very short stem carrying 5 to 9, lingulate, very unequally bilobed apically leaves in the upper half that blooms in the spring through summer on an axillary 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence.
Synonyms Angraecum acutipetalum var. analabeensis H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007; Angraecum acutipetalum var. ankeranae H.Perrier ex Hermans 2007; Gomphocentrum acutipetalum (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1936/81; An Introduction tothe Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A acutipetalum var analabeensis; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A acutipetalum var ankeranae; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 drawing fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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