Angraecum caricifolium H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Lepervencha

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

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Common Name The Carex-Like Leaf Angraecum

Flower Size

Found in central Madagascar on tree trunks in moss forests at elevations around 1400 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool to warm growing epiphyte with a slightly compressed, very thin stem carrying 3 to 6, distant, linear, very thin, rigid, caniculate-pleated, obtuse uneaqually bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 3/4 to 2.4" [2 to 6 cm] long, 5 to 10 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 2 to 3 distant sheaths and carrying the small flowers close to the stem.

Synonyms Angraecum carifolium H. Perrier 1938 [Mispelling]

References W3 Tropicos [http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html] , Kew Monocot list [ http://www.kew.org/wcsp/home.do ], IPNI [ http://www.us.ipni.org/ipni/plantsearch?request_type=search&output_format=query&ret_defaults=on ]; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981 as A carifolium

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