Angraecum appendiculoides Schltr. 1922 SECTION Lepervenchea
Photo by Gilles Grunenwald
Another plant in situ in Madagascar Photos by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
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Common Name or Meaning The Appendicula-Like Angraecum
Flower Size .2" [5 mm]
Found in central Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 1700 to 2000 meters as a small to medium sized, pendant, cool growing epiphyte with an elongate stem carrying many spreading, oval-lanceolate, cordate, basally clasping leaves that blooms in the later spring on an axillary, lax, 4 to 7 flowered, inflorescence with broadly oval-acuminate, longer than the ovary floral bract
Synonyms Lepervenchea appendiculoides (Schltr.) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing good; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide
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