Angraecum ampullaceum Bosser 1970 SECTION Arachnangraecum

Drawing by © H Perrier

LATER and again LATE

Common Name or Meaning The Vein Like Lip Spur Angraecum

Flower Size 2/8 to 3.2" [7 to 8 cm]

Found in east central and south eastern Madagascar in humid evergreen forests at elevations of 500 to 1400 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with numerous leaves that blooms in the later spring and again in the late summer on an axillary, 3.6 to 4" [9 to 10 cm] long, 1 to 2 flowered inflorescence with a spur shaped growths at the base of the peduncle that seem to contain resin and carrying white flowers.

Synonyms Arachnangraecum ampullaceum (Bosser) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Jumellea humbertii H.Perrier 1938

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 as Jumella humbertii Drawing fide; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as J humbertii; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Cribb 2006; Orchids of Maadgascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 as Jumellea humberti; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide;

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