Angraecum alleizettei Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lepervenchea Schlechter

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

Found in 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 21 to 3 tubular sheaths and carrying the inverted flowers close to the stem.

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981

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