Angraecum amplexicaule Toill.-Gen. & Bosser 1961 SECTION Pseudojummellea

Photo by © Pierre Fortune and the The I Naturalist Website

MID EARLY

Common Name The Amplexicaule Angraecum

Flower Size 1.36" [3.4 cm]

Found in eastern Madagascar in humid rainforests at low elevations as a small sized, hot growing epiphyte with a pendent, stem carrying 2 ranked, narrowly oblong, unequally bilobed apically rounded lobes, thin, margins undulate towards the base, basally rounded and amplexicaul leaves that blooms in the mid summer through early winter on axillary, peduncle very short, provided with a bract, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Pseudojumellea amplexicaulis (Toill.-Gen. & Bosser) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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