Angraecum bicallosum H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter Photo by © Lourens Grobler
Photos by Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website
Common Name or Meaning The Two Calli Angraecum [refers to the 2 small, obscure calli at the entrance to the spur]
Flower Size 2.4" [6 cm]
Found in northern Madagascar in mossy, lichen rich forests on tree trunks at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, cool, pendant growing epiphyte with branching, slightly compressed stems carrying short, broadly elliptic, deeply and unequally bilobed apically, conduplicate basally leaves that blooms in the spring on an axillary, very short, single flowered inflorescence enveloped completely by 3 to 4, green sheaths and a similar green, folded floral bract.
Synonyms Perrierangraecum bicallosum (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013
References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81 drawing good; AOS Bulletin Vol 48 No 4 1979 photo good; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; A Culture Manual for Angraecoid Orchid Growers Hillerman 1992 photo fide; 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; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;
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