Photo courtesy of Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

Plant and Flowers 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, hot to 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 summer and fall on an axillary 4" [10 cm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006