Angraecum alleizettei Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lemurangis
Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar
Photo by © François Vandeschricke and The Orchidees de Reunion Website
Common Name Alleizette's Angraecum [French Public Servant in Madagascar early 1900's]
Flower Size .1 to .18" [2 to 4 mm]
Found in the central highlands of Madagascar in moss forests at elevations around 1400 to 1700 meters as a miniature to small sized, pendant, cool growing epiphyte with a pendant stem carrying obliquely recurved or flat, coriaceous, oval-obtuse and rounded basally leaves that blooms in the summer, fall and early winter on an axillary, .48 to to .6" [12 to 15 mm] long, 2 to 5 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 2 to 3, tubular sheaths and carrying the inverted flowers close to the stem.
Synonyms Lemurangis alleizettei (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction tothe Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 drawing fide
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