Angraecum compactum Schltr. 1916 SECTION Perrierangraecum Schlechter Photo courtesy of Eric Hunt.

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Common Name or Meaning The Solid [Squat] Angraecum

Flower Size 1 1/2 to 2" [4 to 6 cm] Spur 4" [10 cm]

Found in Madagascar in humid forests at elevations of 700 to 2000 meters as a small sized, hot to cool growing epiphyte with a short, stout stem carrying 5 to 14, spreading or recurved, thick and leathery, folded, gray green, mottled leaves that blooms in the late winter, spring and early summer on an axillary, short, few [1 to 3] flowered inflorescence that peirced the leaf sheath and the nocturnally, fragrant flower has a "u"-shaped bend in it.

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Miniature Orchids Northern 1988; Botanica Orchids Laurel Glenn 2004; Manual of Orchids Stewart 1995; The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Orchds Pridgeon 1992; Cultivated Angraecoid Orchids Of Madagascar Hillerman & Holst 1986; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1981; Angraecoid Orchids Stewart, Hermans, Campbell 2006