Angraecum chloranthum Schltr. 1913 SECTION Chlorangraecum Schlechter

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

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Common Name The Green Blooming Angraecum [refers to the flowers color]

Flower Size

Found in Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 500 to 1200 meters as a small to medium sized, hot to warm growing epiphyte with no, to almost no stem carrying 5 to 6, unequally bilobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on an axillary, 1.6 to 2" [4 to 5 cm] long, 2 to 3 flowered inflorescence enveloped basally by 3 to 4 sheaths.

Synonyms

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

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