Angraecum caulescens Thouars 1822 SECTION Gomphocentrum Garay

Plant Photos courtesy of Dominique Karadjoff and his Madagascar Orchids Species Website

Common Name or Meaning The Stem Forming Angraecum [refers to the Branching Habit]

Flower Size 1/2" [1.25 cm]

Found in Mauritius, Reunion and Madagascar in moist forests at medium? elevations as a mini-miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with an erect, woody stem with greyish elongated roots and carrying to 10, dark green, undulate, ligulate, narrowing towards the base to appear petiolate, very unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms on a unbranched, arising from below the leaves, 3.2 to 4.8" [8 to 12 cm] long, 3 to 5 flowered inflorescence with very small bracts.

Similar to A calceolus but differs in it's non-branching inflorescence and smaller flowers and from A multifolrum by it's longer single inflorescence and shorter stem.

Synonyms Aerobion caulescens (Thouars) Spreng. 1826; Epidorchis caulescens (Thouars) Kuntze 1891; Mystacidium caulescens (Thouars) Ridl. 1885;

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