Angraecum compressicaule H.Perrier 1938 SECTION Perrierangraecum TYPE Drawing by © Perrier

Common Name The Compressed Stem Angraecum

Flower Size

Found in central Madagascar in mossy forests at elevations around 1800 meters as a miniature to small sized, cool growing epiphyte or lithophyte with a rigid, compressed stem enveloped by compressed, carinate sheaths carrying 5 to 10, apical, distichous, rigid, coriaceopus, slightly arched, linear, obtuse, basally contracted, unequally lobed apically leaves that blooms in the summer on a short, .16 to .32" [4 to 8 mm] long, from the upper leaves, single flowered inflorescence

Synonyms Perrierangraecum compressicaule (H.Perrier) Szlach., Mytnik & Grochocka 2013

References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora Of Madagascar Perrier 1939/1981 drawing fide; 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;

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