Angraecum calceolus Thouars 1822 SECTION Gomphocentrum [Bentham] Garay

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Common Name or Meaning The Small Shoe Angraecum

Flower Size 4/5" [2 cm] Spur 1/3 to 1/2" [1 to 1.2 cm]

Found in Madagascar in coastal forests in shady, humid forests usually the base of shrubs and trees at elevations of 30 to to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphytic or lithophytic orchid with a very short stem carrying 3 to 10, narrowly lanceolate or ligulate, broad, distichous leaves that blooms in the later spring, summer to early fall on a racemose to paniculate, 6 to 12" [15 to 30 cm] long inflorescence with, laxly few to several [4 to 6] flowers and all shorter than the leaves that is found in Mozambique, Madagascar as well as the Indian Ocean Islands Of Comoros, Reunion, Mauritius, the Mascarenes and the Seychelles. This is one of two species that is found in Africa as well as the Indian Ocean Islands and is unusual in that, with older specimens, it is possible to have a branched inflorescence.

Synonyms Aeranthes calceolus (Thouars) S. Moore 1877; Aeranthus calceolus [Thou]S. Moore; Aerobion calceolus (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Angraecum anocentrum Schlechter 1898; Angraecum carpophorum Thouars 1822; Angraecum laggiarae Schltr. 1918; Angraecum rhopaloceras Schlechter 1925; Epidorkis calceolus [Thou] O.Ktze 1891; Epidorkis carpophora (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Gomphocentrum calceolus (Thouars) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013; Macroplectrum calceolus [Thou] Finet 1907; Mystacidium calceolus (Thouars) Cordem. 1895; Mystacidium carpophorum (Thouars) Cordem. 1895

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 drawing fide; *Historie Particulier des Plantes Orchidees Recueilles Sur Trois Iles Australes d'Afrique Thouars 1822 as A carpophorum fruit only; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1935/1981; AOS Bulletin Vol 49 No 6 1980 photo fide; Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb and Laurent 1980; Rudolph Schlechter Die Orchideen Band 1B lieferung 16/17/18 945-1128 Brieger, Senghas 1985 drawing/photo ok; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 drawing/photo fide; An Introduction to the Angraecoid Orchids of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A carpophorum; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986 as A laggiarae; The Manual of Cultivated Orchids Bechtel, Cribb, Laurent 1992 photo fide; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchids Pridgeon 1992; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; African Orchids in the Wild and Cultivation La Croix 1997 drawing ; Flora Zambesiaca Vol 11 Orchidaceae Part 2 Pope 1998; Botanica Orchids Laurel Glen 2002; Boletim CAOB #52 2003; Flora's Orchids Nash & La Croix 2005; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans 2007 photo fide first photo only; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009 photo fide first photo only; AOS Bulletin Vol 85 #7 2016 photo ok; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo fide;

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