Angraecum arachnites Schltr. 1925 SECTION Arachnangraecum Schlechter

Another plant with flowers Photo courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Later

Common Name or Meaning The Spider-Like Angraecum

Flower Size 3.6" [9 cm]

Found in central Madagascar in evergreen, humid forests at elevations around 1380 to 1500 meters as a miniature to just small sized, warm growing epiphyte with an erect to ascending, simple to sparsely branched stem enveloped completely by leafless and leaf-bearing sheaths and carrying spreading, oblong-ligulate, to ligulate, thin and leathery, unequally and obtusely bilobed apically, recurved and minutely serrate leaves blooms in the later spring on an axillary, longer than the leaf, single flowered inflorescence with an ovate, spiculate floral bract

Often confused with A germinyanum but this one has smaller leaves and a small narrower lip

Synonyms

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans and Campbell 2007