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

to LATE

Common Name The Club-Carrying Angraecum [refers to the swollen end of the spur of the flower]

Flower Size 1" [2.5 cm]

Found in Madagascar in moss forests at elevations of 1500 to 2000 meters as a miniature sized, warm to cool growing epiphyte with 6 to 12 stiff, lingulate, unequally bilobed apically, basally clasping leaves and blooms in the summer on an axillary, single flowered, short inflorescence enveloped by 2 to 3 basal sheath and another, scarious-thin and short bract towards the center also carrying very short floral bracts that just begin to cover the pedicel.

Synonyms Angorchis clavigera (Ridl.) Kuntze 1891; Monixus clavigera (Ridl.) Finet 1907

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 ]; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1983; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986;