Angraecum alleizettei Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lemurangis

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

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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 meters as a miniature to small sized, pendant, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a pendant stem carrying obliquely recurved or flat, coriaceous, oval-obtuse and rounded bsally leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 1/2 to 5/8" [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.

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

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