Angraecum chermezonii H. Perrier 1938 SECTION Angraecoides [Cordem.] Garay

Photo by Olaf Pronk and Laurette E.U.R.L. orchids of Madagascar

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Common Name Chermezon's Angraecum

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar in mossy forests on tree trunks at elevations around 1000 to 2100 meters as a small to medium sized, cool growing epiphyte with a branched, pendant stem carrying numerous, attenuate at both ends, lanceolate to linear leaves that blooms in the mid spring and summer on 1 to 2, axillary, 3" [7.5 cm] long, usually shorter than the leaves, single flowered inflorescence with a shoerter than the ovary floral bract.

Synonyms Angraecoides chermezonii (H.Perrier) Szlach. 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; An Introduction to the Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007 photo fide; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Hermans 2009 photo fide; Les Orchidees de Madagascar Bosser & Lecoufle 2015 photo fide; A la Recherche des Orchidees de Madagascar Hervouet 2018 photo good;

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