Angraecum ankeranense H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter

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

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Common Name The Ankeramadinika Angraecum [An area of Central Madagascar]

Flower Size 3" [7.5 cm]

Found in Central Madagascar in moss forests at elevations around 700 to 2000 meters as a miniature to small sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with a stem carrying 5 to 6, thick and leathery, equally bilobed apically leaves and blooms in the late spring on an axillary, short, single flowered inflorescence enveloped by imbricating sheaths and carries a second flower that is always aborted

Synonyms

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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